Walter Besant's "The Art of Fiction: A Lecture" is an essay discussing the principles and techniques of writing fiction. This work is notable for its influence on the literary debate surrounding the nature and purpose of the novel in the late 19th century.
Sources for Walter Besant — The Art of Fiction: A Lecture
Walter Besant — The Art of Fiction: A Lecture in Writing Fiction and Poetry
Held in the Writing Fiction and Poetry chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Aristotle (S. H. Butcher, trans.) — On the Art of Poetry (Poetics) (c. 335 BCE)
- Horace (Ars Poetica) — The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos (c. 19 BCE)
- Sherwin Cody — The Art of Writing and Speaking the English Language (1903)
- Arnold Bennett — The Author's Craft (1914)
- Edith Wharton — The Writing of Fiction (1925)
- Percy Lubbock — The Craft of Fiction (1921)
- William Strunk Jr. — The Elements of Style (1918)
- Anonymous — How to Write a Novel: A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction (1901)
- Edgar Allan Poe — The Philosophy of Composition (1846)
- Tom Hood — A Practical Guide to English Versification (1886)