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What is a book? : Thoughts about writing / by Frances Lester Warner ... [and others] ; edited by Dale Warren.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC9 G4626 B935w
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature.
- Authors.
- Authorship.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 298 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company ; Cambridge : The Riverside Press, 1935.
- Contents:
- Of writing books / Frances Lester Warner
- Heroes and monsters / Ellen Glasgow
- Historical fiction / Rafael Sabatini
- Wanted: Imagination / Gertrude Atherton
- The artist in words / Havelock Ellis
- The will to write / Mary Agnes Hamilton
- Our most exacting audience / Jeanette Eaton
- How I write biography / Harold Nicolson
- On crime fiction / Valentine Williams
- The responsibilities of a writer / Phyllis Bottome
- History as a major sport / George Fort Milton
- The American short story / Edward J. O'Brien
- The eternal apprentice / Frances Frost
- Emotion and form in poetry / Archibald MacLeish
- Just why economics / Herbert Agar
- The period novel / Margaret Ayer Barnes
- Why the past / Esther Forbes
- On answering questions / E. Arnot Robertson
- Cacoëthes scribendi / James Norman Hall
- Of reading books / John Livingston Lowes.
- Notes:
- "List of publications" p. [289]-298.
- Portraits on endpapers.
- Black cloth boards with red paper label lettered in black on front cover.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has library pocket and card on recto of back free endpaper.
- OCLC:
- 1380088
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