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Percy Lubbock (1879–1965)

Author of The Craft of Fiction

18+ Works 245 Members 1 Review

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Includes the names: LUBBOCK Percy, Percy - Selected and edited Lubbock

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Works by Percy Lubbock

The Craft of Fiction (1921) 142 copies

The letters of Henry James (1920) — Editor — 26 copies

Earlham (1922) 20 copies

Roman Pictures (1923) 16 copies

Portrait of Edith Wharton (1947) 9 copies

The Diary of Arthur Christopher Benson (1925) — Editor — 8 copies

Shades of Eton (1935) 6 copies

Samuel Pepys (1920) 5 copies

The Region Cloud 3 copies

Il mestiere della narrativa 2 copies

The Craft of Fiction By Percy Lubbock. MCMXXI. 1921 Hardcover. Charles Scribner's Sons. (PRINTED IN GT BRITAIN) 1 copy

Técnica da ficção, A 1 copy

Elizabeth Barrett Browning in her letters (1974) 1 copy

The Middle Years 1 copy

Percy Lubbock Reader 1 copy

Mary Cholmondeley: A Sketch from Memory 1 copy

George Calderon: a sketch from memory 1 copy

"The Letters of Henry James" Volumes I & II, Complete Set (1920) 1 copy

Associated Works

The Ambassadors [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] (1963) — Contributor — 138 copies

The Ivory Tower (1917) — Editor, some editions — 136 copies

Anna Karenina [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.] (1970) — Contributor — 134 copies

The Sense of the Past (1923) — Editor, some editions — 37 copies

The Novels and Tales of Henry James (1979) — some editions — 24 copies

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Lubbock, Percy
Birthdate: 1879-06-04
Date of death: 1965-08-01
Burial location: Cimitero Evangelico degli Allori, Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Gender: male
Nationality: UK
Birthplace: Earlham Hall, Norfolk, England, UK
Places of residence: Ide Hill, Kent, England, UK
La Spezia, Italy
Education: Eton College, Eton, Berkshire, England, UK
University of Cambridge (King's College)
Occupations: critic
essayist
biographer
Relationships: Origo, Iris (stepdaughter)
Wharton, Edith (friend)
Honour, Hugh (colleague)
Organizations: Times Literary Supplement (anonymous)

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The craft of fiction by Percy Lubbock

Essentially how English Literature explained the craft of story telling for the twentieth Century.

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For Further Reading: A List of 160 Novels from 15 Literatures (1)

Awards

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James Tait Black Memorial Prize

Earlham (Winner – Biography – 1922)

Prix Femina Vie Heureuse Anglais

Roman Pictures (1924)

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Statistics

Works: 18
Also by: 5
Members: 245
Popularity: #92,910
Rating: ½ 3.6

Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 41

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