The world we imagine, selected essays / by Mark Schorer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schorer, Mark, 1908-1977.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--20th century.

American fiction.

English fiction.

Fiction--Technique.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, vi pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 402 pages, 2 unnumbered pages. ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1968]

Contents:

Part One. Technique as discovery; Fiction and the "Analogical Matrix"

Part Two. Moll Flanders; Emma; Jane Eyre; The Good Soldier: A tale of passion

Part Three. Women in Love; Lady Chatterley's Lover; Poste Restante: Lawrence as a traveler; Elmer Gantry: the method of half-truths; Sinclair Lewis and his critics; Two houses, two ways: The Florentine villas of Lewis and Lawrence

Part Four. The burdens of biography

Part Five. Hamlin Garland; Conrad Aiken; Katherine Anne Porter; Carson McCullers and Truman Capote

Part Six. Some relationships: Gertrude Stein, Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway

Part Seven. The world we imagine: notes on the creative act and its function.

Notes:

"First printing, 1968."

"Designed by Herb Johnson."

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok June 1968 Philadelphia".

OCLC:

275910