Notes on Novelists with Some Other Notes - Stevenson Flaubert Balzac and Others

Henry James

Summary

Essays on Stevenson, Flaubert, Balzac, Zola, D'Annunzio and the younger English novelists, by the greatest critic among the novelists. Henry James collected these late pieces in 1914, and the Balzac essay is the fullest statement of what he thought a novel was for. He is generous to writers he does not like and merciless about the ones he does. Sixty plates range from Whistler to Béraud, with the portraits and classical ruins that suit a critic's tour of the novelist's art.

Available since: 09/16/2026.

Print length: 434 pages.

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