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  • The Technique of the Novel

    by Thomas H. Uzzell ...
    The Technique of the Novel by Thomas H. Uzzell is a masterful guide for aspiring writers and literary enthusiasts seeking to understand the art and craft of novel writing. Drawing on his extensive experience as a writer, editor, and teacher, Uzzell offers a comprehensive exploration of the elements that make a novel successful, from its structure and style to character development and narrative ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Technique of the Novel - A Handbook on the Craft of the Long Narrative

    by Thomas H. Uzzell ...
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Faith of a Writer

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  • 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel

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    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes an essential guide for writers and readers alike: an exhilarating tour through one hundred novels that "inspires wicked delight.” —Los Angeles Times Book ReviewFrom classics such as the thousand-year-old Tale of Genji to fiction by Zadie Smith, Jane Smiley explores the power of the form, looking at its history and variety, its ... Read more

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  • To Show and to Tell

    The Craft of Literary Nonfiction

    by Phillip Lopate ...
    Series series An Essential Guide for Writers
    A long-awaited and illuminating book on personal writing from Phillip Lopate—celebrated essayist, professor of writing at Columbia University, and editor of The Art of the Personal Essay.Distinguished author Phillip Lopate, editor of the celebrated anthology The Art of the Personal Essay, is universally acclaimed as “one of our best personal essayists” (Dallas Morning News).Here, combining more ... Read more

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  • On Writing

    by Eudora Welty ...
    Eudora Welty was one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary figures. For as long as students have been studying her fiction as literature, writers have been looking to her to answer the profound questions of what makes a story good, a novel successful, a writer an artist. On Writing presents the answers in seven concise chapters discussing the subjects most important to the narrative craft, ... Read more

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  • John Gardner on Writing

    On Becoming a Novelist, On Writers & Writing, and On Moral Fiction

    by John Gardner ...
    Three books in one volume: Advice and reflections on modern fiction from "one of the greatest creative writing teachers we've ever had" (Frederick Busch).In On Becoming a Novelist, John Gardner advises the aspiring fiction author on such topics as the value of creative writing workshops, the developmental stages of literary growth, and the inevitable experience of writer's block. Drawn from his ... Read more

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  • About Writing

    7 Essays, 4 Letters, 5 Interviews

    by Samuel R. Delany ...
    From the four-time Nebula Award–winning novelist and literary critic, essential reading for the creative writer.Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri's Art of Dramatic Writing. Taking up specifics (When do flashbacks work, and when should you avoid them? How do you make characters both ... Read more

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  • Recovering Your Story

    Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Morrison

    by Arnold Weinstein ...
    “Great art discovers for us who we are,” writes eminent literature professor and critic Arnold Weinstein in this magisterial new book about how we can better uncover and understand our own stories by reading five major modern writers. Professor Weinstein, author of the highly acclaimed A Scream Goes Through the House, has spent a lifetime guiding students through the work of great writers, and in ... Read more

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  • Making Shapely Fiction

    by Jerome Stern ...
    A deft analysis and appreciation of fiction—what makes it work and what can make it fail.Here is a book about the craft of writing fiction that is thoroughly useful from the first to the last page—whether the reader is a beginner, a seasoned writer, or a teacher of writing. You will see how a work takes form and shape once you grasp the principles of momentum, tension, and immediacy. "Tension," ... Read more

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  • The Sound on the Page

    Great Writers Talk about Style and Voice in Writing

    by Ben Yagoda ...
    The acclaimed author examines the importance of a writer's voice—including interviews with Susan Orlean, Michel Chabon, Junot Díaz and others.In writing, style matters. Our favorite writers often entertain, move, and inspire us less by what they say than by how they say it. In The Sound on the Page, acclaimed author, teacher, and critic Ben Yagoda offers practical and incisive help for writers on ... Read more

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