John Knowles (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
Other Literary Forms
John Knowles has written in several other genres besides long fiction: Double Vision: American Thoughts Abroad, published in 1964, is Knowles’s account of his travels in essay form. The work discusses Arabian and Greek cultures and compares them to American Puritanism. Knowles also put together a collection of short stories entitled Phineas: Six Stories in 1968. The collection, containing the story “Phineas,” on which A Separate Peace was based, deals with Knowles’s favorite subject—the condition of humanity. In addition,...
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