How Fiction Works

Author: James Wood
Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0374173400

How Fiction Works

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. Get How Fiction Works literature books for free.
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. The result is nothing less than a philosophy of the novel-plainspoken, funny, blunt-in the traditions of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Strunk and White's The Elements of Style. It sums up two decades of insight with wit and concision. It will change the way you read. Check How Fiction Works our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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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. The result is nothing less than a philosophy of the novel-plainspoken, funny, blunt-in the traditions of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Strunk and White's The Elements of Style

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