Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. PRELIMINARIES -- TRUTH OF INTERCOURSE / Stevenson, Robert Louis -- ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WRITING AND SPEAKING / Hazlitt, William -- II. PRINCIPLES OF GROWTH -- PRINCIPLES OF GROWTH / Dobell, Sidney Thompson -- THE PRINCIPLES OF SUCCESS IN LITERATURE (II AND IV) / Lewes, George Henry -- THE CARDINAL RULES OF RHETORIC / Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- THE PRINCIPLE OF ECONOMY APPLIED TO WORDS / Spencer, Herbert -- WORDS THAT LAUGH AND CRY -- THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPOSITION / Poe, Edgar Allan -- MARGINALIA -- JUDGMENTS OF AUTHORS / Eliot, George -- SIMPLICITY IN ART / Norris, Frank -- LANGUAGE AND THE MAN / Ruskin, John -- THE MORALITY OF THE PROFESSION OF LETTERS / Stevenson, Robert Louis -- ADVICE TO A YOUNG REVIEWER / Copleston, Edward -- III. FICTIONAL NARRATIVE -- WHAT EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT EXPRESSION AND SOMETHING WHICH ALL THE WORLD DOES NOT KNOW / Diderot, Denis -- THE NOVEL. GUY DE MAUPASSANT -- THE ART OF FICTION / James, Henry -- A HUMBLE REMONSTRANCE / Stevenson, Robert Louis -- STORY-TELLING / Eliot, George -- THE AIM OF FICTIONAL ART / Conrad, Joseph -- A PROBLEM IN FICTION / Norris, Frank -- FRANK NORRIS / Makepeace Thackeray, William -- IV. THE QUESTION OF STYLE -- DISCOURSE ON STYLE / Leclerc De Buffon, Georges-Louis -- THE SINEWS OF STYLE / Thoreau, Henry David -- STYLE AS ORGANIC AND AS MECHANIC / De Quincey, Thomas -- ON STYLE / Schopenhauer, Arthur -- ON FAMILIAR STYLE / Hazlitt, William -- ON STYLE / Quiller-Couch, Arthur -- INDEX
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