Three Masters (Classic Reprint): Balzac, Dickens, Dostoeffsky - Couverture souple

Zweig, Stefan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 133047242X ISBN 13 : 9781330472422

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Exploring the psychology of narration through Balzac, Dickens, and Dostoevsky. This concise study reveals how each master creates a world of life, law, and character that speaks to readers across time.

This edition collects Stefan Zweig’s incisive essays into a single voice, showing how these three nineteenth‑century writers build universal patterns from their distinct spheres—society, family, and the human whole. It offers clear analysis without spoilers, inviting readers to see how temperament and fate shape great fiction.

• Clear explanations of each writer’s world and methods


• Plain language discussions of character types and narrative power


• Thoughtful comparisons that illuminate shared artistic goals


• Context for understanding how personal experience feeds literary achievement

Ideal for readers curious about what makes a novelist endure, and for those wanting a compact guide to three monumental voices in world literature.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Three Masters: Balzac, Dickens, Dostoeffsky

The three essays which comprise this book were penned at various times in the course of ten years. Yet though they were composed at fairly long intervals, it is in no fit of caprice on the part of the author that they are assembled under one cover. A conviction of their essential uniformity has prompted him to bring these three greatest novelists of the nineteenth century together; to show them as types which, for the very reason that they contrast each with the others, also complete one another in a way which makes them combine to round off our concept of the epic portrayers of the world, the writers of romances.

When I say that I consider Balzac, Dickens, and Dostoeffsky the supremely great novelists of the nineteenth century, it must not be thought that I am casting a slur on the achievements of Goethe, Gottfried Keller, Stendhal, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Thackeray, Victor Hugo, and many others. From the works of each of these distinguished men you may select a novel and tell me, with good reason, that it excels any single work of my chosen trio - or at any rate any single work by Balzac or Dickens. But this brings me to the distinction I wish to draw between the writer of one (perhaps even more than one) outstanding novel, and what I term a true novelist - an epic master, the creator of an almost unending series of pre-eminent romances.

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This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 133047242X
• ISBN 13: 9781330472422
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 254
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible