New York Review of Books, March 2025. Trade Paperback. In this enthralling re-creation of American novelist Henry James' famous ten-month trip around the United States, lauded critic Peter Brooks brings to life both the literary giant and America in its Gilded Age. In 1904, after two decades of living and..... More
Harvard University Press, March 1992. Paper Back. A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider how the plot reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose a new meaning on life. More
Yale University Press, May 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Realist Vision explores the claim to represent the world as it is. Peter Brooks takes a new look at the realist tradition and its intense interest in the visual. Discussing major English and French novels and paintings from the nineteenth and twentieth..... More
New York Review of Books, October 2022. Paper Back. In this spiritual sequel to his influential Reading for the Plot, Peter Brooks examines the dangerously alluring power of storytelling. "There's nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. Nothing can defeat it." So begins..... More
