The Writing of Fiction
By: Edith Wharton
3.82
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
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Want to Read $ 2.99"True originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision."-Edith Wharton, The Writing of Fiction
"Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before."-Edith Wharton, The Writing of Fiction
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1. How Does Sanctification Work?
By: David A. Powlison
4.06
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Weaving together personal stories, biblical exposition, and theological reflection, David Powlison … read more
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- nonfiction
2. La casa
By: Paco Roca
4.45
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A lo largo de los años el dueño llena de recuerdos su casa, testigo mudo de su vida. Y aquél es tam… read more
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3. The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes
By: Joan Silber
3.88
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Fiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible," asserts Joan… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
- crafts
- literary criticism
"Length is weight in fiction, pretty much."-Joan Silber, The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes
"Slowed time is -- or should be -- a way of pointing to what's important."-Joan Silber, The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes
"A story is entirely determined by what portion of time it chooses to narrate."-Joan Silber, The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes
"A story is already over before we hear it. That is how the teller knows what it means."-Joan Silber, The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes
4. The Guermantes Way
By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , Mark Treharne
4.27
Format: 619 pages, Paperback
After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way … read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
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"She was not yet dead. But I was already alone."-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
"و خواندن کتاب تو را خوش میآید، چون تخیل با توست"-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
"گاهی آدم چیزهای دور را بهتر از چیزهای نزدیک میشناسد"-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
"You're as strong as the Pont Neuf. You'll live to bury us all!"-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
5. All the Sad Young Men (Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald)
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald , James L.W. West III
3.92
Format: 540 pages, cloth
This volume of the Cambridge Fitzgerald Edition includes the original nine stories selected by Fitz… read more
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- literature
- classics
"So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, All the Sad Young Men (Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald)
"He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back anymore. The gates were closed, the sun was down, and there was no beauty left but the gray beauty of steel t…"-F. Scott Fitzgerald, All the Sad Young Men (Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald)
6. Poetics
By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath
3.59
Format: None pages, Paperback
'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more
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- classics
- nonfiction
- writing
- literary criticism
7. Papegaai vloog over de IJssel
By: Kader Abdolah
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Vier buitenlandse gezinnen krijgen elk een huis in een dorp langs de rivier de IJssel aangeboden. Z… read more
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- literature
8. A Haunted House and Other Short Stories
By: Virginia Woolf , Leonard Woolf
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The stories found in A Haunted Housereflect Virginia Woolf's experimental writing style and act as … read more
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- literature
- classics
9. Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)
By: Lisa Cron
4.21
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Following on the heels of Lisa Cron's breakout first book, Wired for Story , this writing guide rev… read more
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- crafts
- nonfiction
- writing
- how to
"We don't turn to story to escape reality. We turn to story to navigate reality."-Lisa Cron, Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)
"In a nutshell: A story is about how the things that happen affect someone in pursuit of a difficult goal, and how that person changes internally as a result."-Lisa Cron, Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)
"But the simple fact remains that without the first half of the story, there can be no second half. The first half establishes where the problem came from and who the protagonist is to begin with, so …"-Lisa Cron, Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)
10. El Llano en llamas
By: Juan Rulfo
4.47
Format: None pages,
'The Burning Plain and Other Stories consists of fifteen pieces ranging from brief anecdotes, casua… read more
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- literature
- classics
11. The Unknown Masterpiece
By: Arthur C. Danto , Honoré de Balzac , Richard Howard
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painte… read more
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- literature
- classics
12. Love and Friendship
By: Jane Austen
4.14
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
This collection of the early works of Jane Austen uniquely displays the emerging talent of a brilli… read more
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13. Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
By: Francine Prose
3.17
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
In her entertaining and edifying New York Timesbestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites … read more
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14. Heaven and Hell
By: Jón Kalman Stefánsson , Philip Roughton
4.28
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
In a remote part of Iceland, a young man joins a boat to fish for cod, but when a tragedy occurs at… read more
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15. Baltasar and Blimunda
By: José Saramago , Giovanni Pontiero
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, a "brilliant...enchanting novel" (New Yor… read more
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16. Washington Square
By: Henry James , Michael Cunningham
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
The plot of Washington Squarehas the simplicity of old-fashioned melodrama: a plain-looking, good-h… read more
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17. The Art of Fiction
By: Henry James
4.50
Format: 191 pages,
In this classic essay which originally appeared in his 1888 collection Partial Portraits, Henry Jam… read more
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18. Aspects of the Novel
By: E.M. Forster
3.99
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
Forster's lively, informed originality and wit have made this book a classic. Avoiding the chronolo… read more
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19. No Man's Land
By: Harold Pinter
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Do Hirst and Spooner really know each other, or are they performing an elaborate charade? The ambig… read more
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20. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
By: Raymond Carver
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down s… read more
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21. The Wrong Box
By: Robert Louis Stevenson , Lloyd Osbourne
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
A black comic novel about the last remaining survivors of a tontine - a group life-insurance policy… read more
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22. Olivia
By: Dorothy Bussy , Regina Marler , Olivia , Dorothy Strachey
4.00
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
"Considered one of the most subtle and beautifully written lesbian novels of the century, this 1949… read more
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23. Eden
By: Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
4.04
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
Málvísindakona, sérfræðingur í fámennistungumálum, ákveður að breyta landi þar sem ekkert grær í Ed… read more
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24. Paris-Briançon
By: Philippe Besson
3.88
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
Le temps d'une nuit à bord d'un train-couchettes, une dizaine de passagers, qui n'auraient jamais d… read more
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25. Il vecchio al mare
By: Domenico Starnone
3.36
Format: 128 pages, ebook
«Nel corso della mia vita ho fatto di tutto, proprio di tutto, per smania di racconto». Sulla spiag… read more
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26. Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.28
Format: 138 pages, Hardcover
When the New York Times referred to Ursula K. Le Guin as America’s greatest writer of science ficti… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
- crafts
- books about books
- literary criticism
"What you wrote above the nightingale is so interesting, Mr. Keats, please tell us more."-Ursula K. Le Guin, Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing
27. The Writing of Fiction
By: Edith Wharton
3.82
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
This edition features a new introduction from Brandon Taylor. The Writing of Fiction by Edith W… read more
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- classics
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- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
- crafts
- how to
- books about books
- literary criticism
"True originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision."-Edith Wharton, The Writing of Fiction
"Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before."-Edith Wharton, The Writing of Fiction
28. 1001 nacht
By: Kader Abdolah
3.93
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Misschien is het wel de beroemdste vertelling ter wereld: de door zijn vrouw bedrogen koning Sjahri… read more
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- classics
29. Insegnare a nuotare a una foca: Viaggio insolito nella lingua islandese
By: Leonardo Piccione
4.13
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
In alcune vacanze basta una settimana per memorizzare le espressioni più frequenti, imparare a dire… read more
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- nonfiction
30. La escritura como un cuchillo
By: Annie Ernaux
4.08
Format: 143 pages, Kindle Edition
Durante un año, aproximadamente, sin una regularidad fija, Frédéric-Yves Jeannet le envió a Annie E… read more
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- essays
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31. Una breve historia del jardín (Spanish Edition)
By: Gilles Clément
3.78
Format: 101 pages, Kindle Edition
Gilles Clément ha escrito un recorrido por la historia del jardín que parte de sus significados más… read more
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