Front cover image for Life and art : essays, notes, and letters collected for the first time

Life and art : essays, notes, and letters collected for the first time

Thomas Hardy, Ernest Brennecke (Writer of introduction)
Print Book, English, [1968]
Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, N.Y., [1968]
Personal correspondence
viii, 140 pages illustrations 22 cm.
439701
Essays: How I built myself a house; The Dorsetshire labourer; The Rev. William Barnes; The profitable reading of fiction; Candour in English fiction; The science of fiction; Memories of church restoration
The notes: Dialect in novels; On the use of dialect; Why I don't write plays; On the tree of knowledge; Laws the cause of misery; Appreciation of Anatole France; The war and literature
Letters: To Tinsley; On the treatment of a certain author; On censorship of the drama; On Tess in America; On recognition of authors by the state; Maeterlinck's apology for nature; On The well-beloved; To Clement K. Shorter; On the war; To the Stevenson club
"First published 1925."