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Modern Fiction
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A literary essay in which Charles Dudley Warner discusses modern fiction, criticizing realism's focus on the ordinary and disagreeable while defending imagination and ideal beauty in the novel. It suits readers interested in nineteenth-century literary criticism and debates about the novel's purpose.
Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warner was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.
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