The writing of fiction
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About This Book
This edition features a new introduction from Brandon Taylor. The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton contains brilliant advice on writing from the first woman ever to win a Pulitzer Prize -- for her novel The Age of Innocence. In The Writing of Fiction, Wharton provides general comments on the roots of modern fiction, the various approaches to writing a piece of fiction, and the development of form and style. She also devotes entire chapters to the telling of a short story, the construction of a novel, and the importance of character and situation in the novel. Not only a valuable treatise on...
Chapters (196)
- THE WRITING OF FICTION
- CONTENTS
- I IN GENERAL
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- II TELLING A SHORT STORY
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- III CONSTRUCTING A NOVEL
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- IV
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- IV CHARACTER AND SITUATION IN THE NOVEL
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- V MARCEL PROUST
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