Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Johan Christian Dahl, J. M. W. Turner and Giovanni Paolo Panini. A critic who knew where the joins are takes apart Flaubert, Thackeray, Tolstoy, Balzac and above all James — scene against summary, the shown against the told. Lubbock was James's friend and edited his letters after his death; this 1921 book built a whole critical vocabulary that everyone used for forty years and Forster spent the rest of his life arguing with. Sixty plates of readers and quiet interiors, from Fragonard to Hammershøi, keep the novelist's solitary craft in view throughout.