An edition of How fiction works (2008)

How fiction works

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An edition of How fiction works (2008)

How fiction works

1st Picador ed.

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What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in How Fiction Works, the first book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. Ranging widely--from Homer to David Foster Wallace, from What Maisie Knew to Make Way for Ducklings--Wood takes the reader through the basic elements of the art, step by step.--From publisher description.

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Picador
Language
English
Pages
265

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Subjects

Fiction, Authorship, Technique, History and criticism, Fiction, technique, New York Times reviewed

People

E.M. Forster, Jane Austen, Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), Roland Barthes, Saul Bellow, Miguel de Cervantes, Anton Chekhov, Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), Ford Madox Ford, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, James Joyce (1882-1941), D.H. Lawrence, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1977), Marcel Proust (1871-1922), William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Leo Tolstoy graf (1828-1910), John Updike (1932-2009), Virginia Woolf
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Cover of: How fiction works
How fiction works
2009, Picador
in English - 1st Picador ed.
Cover of: How fiction works
How fiction works
2008, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808.3
Library of Congress
PN3355 .W66 2009, PN3355.W66 2009, PN3355 .W66 2008, PN3331 .W67 2018

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
265

ID Numbers

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OL23054094M
ISBN 10
0312428472
ISBN 13
9780312428471
LCCN
2009001786
OCLC/WorldCat
1074347241, 277196602
Library Thing
4885582
Goodreads
6486732

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Provides a somewhat academic approach to a discussion of the main elements of fiction using examples (good and bad) from literature.

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