National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 3-National Geographic Society

from Art of Fiction · host Walter Besant, Henry James

A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American writer Henry James in the same year. (Summary by Julie VW)

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