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Essays on Modern Novelists

by William Lyon Phelps

The book is a collection of essays dedicated to several writers, Phelps had seen as remarkable/promising. Some are of English expression; some are foreigners, remarkable, nonetheless.

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English

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English

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1910

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William Lyon Phelps

United States

William Lyon Phelps was an American author, critic and scholar. He taught the first American university course on the modern novel. He had a radio show, wrote a daily syndicated newspaper column, lect...

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