Harvard University Press, 1983. Soft cover. Fair. 229 pages, with index. Collection of essays, including ones on the English novel as of 1907, reading novels, several on interpretation, Appendix "The One Correct Interpretation." Trade paperback with shelf wear, creases to spine, poorly bound so that several pages and sections have come entirely or partially separated from the binding (but all are in place), pages bright. From the library of Prof. Ann E. Berthoff, her interesting and argumentative marginalia in pencil on approximately 25 pages.

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Bookseller: Berthoff Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: AEB-306
Title: The Art of Telling: Essays on Fiction
Author: Frank Kermode
Format/Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Used - Fair
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0674048296
ISBN 13: 9780674048294
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Place of Publication: Cumbreland, Rhode Island
Date Published: 1983
Keywords: READING, WRITING, NOVELS, INTERPRETATION, ESSAYS
Bookseller catalogs: Literary history; Composition and rhetoric; Frank Kermode;

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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.

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Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
Marginalia: Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
Trade Paperback: Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....