These and other vital questions bearing directly on the art of creative writing Ivan Turgenev considers in his immensely fascinating Literary Reminiscences, towards the end of his life and now translated for the first time into English.
Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, Franz Kafka, H.G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Mark Twain, James Joyce, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Edith Wharton, Rudyard Kipling, Guy de Maupassant, Kate Chopin, Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, Anton Chekhov, George Eliot, Stephen Crane, Thomas Mann, Alexander Pushkin, Voltaire, Nikolai Gogol, Arthur Conan Doyle, Gustave Flaubert & Jules Verne
PergamonMedia, Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, M.I. Saltykov, Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko, Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Fyodor Sologub, Ignaty Nikolayevich Potapenko, ST Semyonov, Maxim Gorky, Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev, Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev & Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin