Essays on Modern Novelists

About this film

LibriVox recording of Essays on Modern Novelists by William Lyon Phelps. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. A collection of essays on 19th century novelists, both famous ones and those largely forgotten now. Among the writers presented most wrote in English, but three foreign authors are also discussed. Phelps taught a course on novels at a university and he added to those biographical essays some of his ideas about the importance of novels in the process of teaching about literature. (Summary by Piotr Nater) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . M4B Audiobook (183MB)

Directors & creators

William Lyon Phelps

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks; nonfiction; authors; writers; novelists

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