The realists,eight portraits (Stendhal, Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Galdos, Henry James, Proust )

In this series of portraits of Stendhal, Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Galdos, James, and Proust, Snow assesses the influences of personality and experiences on their choice of subjects and literary style