1. The house of fiction: The art of fiction, 1884. The great form, 1889. The future of the novel, 1899. The lesson on Balzac, 1905.
2. Novelists: Anthony Trollope, 1883. Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887. Guy de Maupassant, 1888. Turgenev and Tolstoy, 1897. Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1897. Gustave Flaubert, 1902. Emile Zola, 1903.
3. Novels: Our mutual friend, 1865. Middlemarch, 1873. Far from the madding crowd, 1874. Nana, 1880. Bibliographical note (p. 281)