William Lyon Phelps’s Essays on Modern Novelists collects appreciative critical studies of leading writers of fiction. Phelps, a popular Yale professor and critic, discusses novelists such as Hardy, Mark Twain, and their contemporaries with warmth and accessibility.
Aimed at the general reader, the essays helped shape the literary tastes of a wide audience in the early twentieth century. They remain a readable introduction to the novelists Phelps admired and championed. This edition is a clean, public-domain text prepared for comfortable reading. Download the free EPUB of this collection of essays on modern fiction.