How novels are put together, examined by a critic who knew where the joins are: Flaubert, Thackeray, Tolstoy, Balzac, and above all James — scene against summary, the shown against the told. Lubbock was James's friend and edited his letters after his death; this 1921 book built a whole critical vocabulary that everyone used for forty years and Forster spent the rest of his life arguing with.