On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780674004511 (0674004515)
Publish date: March 10th 2001
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
The essays in this book center around the writing of historical fiction as well as the use of stories. Byatt gives insightful comments abouts the popularity of the genre as well as analysis of some of the writers in the genre. She focuses on Penelope Fitzgerald, Bowen, Swift, Blixen, and Pratchett...