An edition of How fiction works (2008)
How fiction works
By James Wood
Publish Date
2008
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
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Pages
274
Description:
Provides a somewhat academic approach to a discussion of the main elements of fiction using examples (good and bad) from literature.
subjects: Fiction, Authorship, Technique, History and criticism, Fiction, technique, New York Times reviewed, Pn3331 .w67 2008, 808.3, Fiction, history and criticism
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