Masters of the English Novel (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Subtitled “A Study of Principles and Personality,” this 1909 critical study of fiction views its subjects in light of romantic and realistic movements. The author offers critical essays on Richardson, Fielding, Scott, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Stevenson, and others—as well as chapters on the literary contributions of France and America.