"A truly outstanding work. I would be hard pressed to think of a more scholarly, more substantial, more insightful study on European realism."—Virgil Nemoianu, Catholic University of America "A work of synthetic scholarship that re-visions the field of late 19th-century realism comprehensively, All is True treats quite wonderfully and originally the implied acts of reading and reacting to such fiction—what ... Read moreis demanded of the reader and how the reader is guided to these demands. And it treats the inner life of consciousness that realism can elicit, the points of view that it takes, the language and illusions it must inevitably use, and the names that haunt it."—James Engell, Harvard University Show Less