James Wood: How Fiction Works

10th anniversary revised edition with new Introduction How Fiction Works is a scintillating study of the magic of fiction-an analysis of its main elements and a celebration of its lasting power. Here one of the most prominent and stylish critics o...

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In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, James Wood's How Fiction Works is a scintillating study of the magic of fiction--an analysis of its main elements and a celebration of its lasting p...

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Rediscover this deep, practical anatomy of the novel from ''the strongest ... literary critic we have'' ( New York Review of Books ) in this new revised 10th anniversary edition. What do we mean when we say we ''know'' a fictional character? What ...

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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.Raging ...

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Rediscover this deep, practical anatomy of the novel from 'the strongest ... literary critic we have' (New York Review of Books) in this new revised 10th anniversary edition. What do we mean when we say we 'know' a fictional ch...

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