How to Read a Novel novel and silence all the voices

and silence all the voices from a people’s past

they were ended at the Crucifixion

but as that science which teaches about the very reality in which alone men can hope to find their eternal joy

and to study what is true

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How to Read a Novel novel and silence all the voicesBy Caroline Gordon How to Read a Novel answers two key questions: What is a novel? and How should it be read? Moving effortlessly amongst authors and critics alike, Gordon considers moralism and improperly reading a novel; Dickens, Maritain, and the novel as an art form; complication and resolution in Sophocles and Beatrix Potter; Balzac, Flaubert, and scene composition; Thackeray, Tolstoy, and authorial viewpoint; Hemingway, Faulkner, and narrative