How to Read a Novel novel and local and international communities

and local and international communities

” Each of the twenty-three stories in this volume illustrates the various ways that those techniques can be (or ought not to be) employed

By Étienne Gilson

but as that science which teaches about the very reality in which alone men can hope to find their eternal joy

How to Read a Novel novel and local and international communitiesBy Caroline Gordon How to Read a Novel answers two key questions: What is a novel? and How should it be read? Moving effortlessly amongst authors and critics alike, Gordon considers moralism and improperly reading a novel; Dickens, Maritain, and the novel as an art form; complication and resolution in Sophocles and Beatrix Potter; Balzac, Flaubert, and scene composition; Thackeray, Tolstoy, and authorial viewpoint; Hemingway, Faulkner, and narrative