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Read what Bloom had to say on the world's great novelists including Miguel de Cervantes, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemmingway and more. Ages 16+.

This biography of Winston Churchill discusses the author's role as the popularizer of middle class intellectual liberalism.

Writing page-turning fiction depends on your ability to create rock-solid, believable scenes. Scenes act as dynamic structures that thrust both your characters and readers forward through conflict, baiting them with goals that may–or may not–be obtained. Writing good scenes makes the difference between a tale that crackles with energy and momentum and a story that falls flat.In Novelist's Essential Guide to Crafting Scenes, Raymond Obstfeld leads you through the creation process, examining all the elements that go into making scenes successful, cohesive and compelling. Tackling topics like finding a scene's "hot spot," identifying its dominating purpose and avoiding a cliched ending, Obstfeld provides essential reading for novice and novelist alike. Using examples from film, short stories, and best-selling fiction, he documents why and how scenes work. You'll learn:what is (and isn't) a scenehow to make scenes memorablehow to use point of viewhow to focus on character, plot and themehow to make scenes pay offhow to structure a scenehow to use settinghow to revise a scenethe importance of first impressionsEvery page of Novelist's Essential Guide to Crafting Scenes opens a new window of opportunity for writers by offering valuable insight, articulate advice and expert examples. It's a reference, a road map and a romp, all rolled into one. So go on–make a scene. And make it unforgettable.

Harold Bloom is America's most esteemed literary critic and one of the greatest critical minds of our time. This work contains the best of Bloom's writing on the greatest novels and novelists of our time - from Daniel Defoe to Philip Roth, from Charles Dickens to Amy Tan. It also features his overview of the genre and thoughts on its development.

Format Hardcover Subject Literary Collections Publisher Greenwood Press

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Gr 8 Up-Reproducing selections from its massive 10-volume Critical Survey of Literature, 4th ed. (2010), Salem has repackaged them into 24 paperbacks on various themes. Each volume features an introductory essay and approximately 22 entries on individual writers. Entries open with a brief discussion of "other literary forms" the author employed, followed by a discussion of "achievements," and then a one to two-page biography. The main body of each entry consists of an analysis of the author's major works that is compellingly written and could easily be employed as a booktalk to introduce readers to a new work. However, the problems that plagued the original set remain. There is an uncomfortable quirkiness to the selection of authors covered. For instance, in Feminist Themes, there is no mention of Toni Morrison, a writer not only of importance as an African American, but also as a novelist who plumbs the depths of the female psyche and women's roles in society. The absence of an entry on Shirley Jackson or Stephen King in Gothic Novelists is similarly odd. Though the books make for delightful browsing, and at times illuminating introductions to some of literature's more important figures, they will be of little use to students in search of academic sources for a research paper. Libraries with access to Gale's Literature Resource Center or EBSCO's Literary Reference Center don't need these works.--Herman Sutter, Saint Agnes Academy, Houston, TXα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Vinyl LP pressing. Richard Swift's duo debuts, The Novelist and Walking Without Effort, are fraternal twins wrestling with same Big Questions in opposite ways one toiling in a cinderblock basement slugging typewriter coffee; one lost on the Pacific Coast Highway, looking again and again for something in a sunset that just ain't there. One's wheezing through a crusty gramophone in some Artie Shaw air-conditioned nightmare; one's gliding on the soft tape of an 8-Track, fat tears welling up behin

Discusses the developement of the novel, and gives brief biographical information on hundreds of novels and critique of their works. Illustrated throughout. 288 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 4to..

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The late novelist, critic, and teacher outlines a comprehensive course of education for the aspiring novelist, with an analysis of the undergraduate and graduate writing courses and provides practical advice on developing one's writing ability and earning a living as a novelist

In the spirit of Dr. Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, acclaimed critic and scholar John Sutherland tours the history of fiction in English No previous author has attempted a book such as this: a complete history of novels written in the English language, from the genre's seventeenth-century origins to the present day. In the spirit of Dr. Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, acclaimed critic and scholar John Sutherland selects 294 writers whose works illustrate the best of every kind of fiction—from gothic, penny dreadful, and pornography to fantasy, romance, and high literature. Each author was chosen, Professor Sutherland explains, because his or her books are well worth reading and are likely to remain so for at least another century. Sutherland presents these authors in chronological order, in each case deftly combining a lively and informative biographical sketch with an opinionated assessment of the writer's work. Taken together, these novelists provide both a history of the novel and a guide to its rich variety. Always entertaining, and sometimes shocking, Sutherland considers writers as diverse as Daniel Defoe, Henry James, James Joyce, Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, Michael Crichton, Jeffrey Archer, and Jacqueline Susann.Written for all lovers of fiction, Lives of the Novelists succeeds both as introduction and re-introduction, as Sutherland presents favorite and familiar novelists in new ways and transforms the less favored and less familiar through his relentlessly fascinating readings.

Peter Childs offers accessible analyses of the work of twelve prominent writers, including Martin Amis, Pat Barker, Zadie Smith and Jeanette Winterson. Focusing on their most-studied writings, Childs develops new readings of these authors' key novels, while the introduction explains the dominant concerns of British fiction from 1970-2003, the period's historical context, and the "state of fiction" at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

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From Kirkus Review: Johnson's virtues as a book critic--common sense, quiet intelligence, a lack of self-indulgent display--are more impressive on a review-by-review basis than in an unflattering collection like this one; still, among these pieces from The New York Review of Books and The New York Times Book Review, you'll find some refreshing contrasts to the flashier sort of book-chat so popular these days. Best here is Johnson on Donald Barthelme: she has the ability to bring him down to size, shake off his mystique, yet without denying the real power of his ""possibly parables."" On Joan Didion and E. L. Doctorow, too, Johnson is open-eyed, if less than inspired: ""Didion's writing is high protein, but leaves the reader a little hungry for the starchy pleasures of the inner life."" Less successful, however, are the reviews that lead Johnson into the iffy roles of social critic or moral philosopher: on Susan Brownmiller, on black writers, on Brooke Hayward (a particularly obvious, limp piece), on Friendly Fire and Patty Hearst. ("". . . You got the feeling that here was Miss Teenage America on trial, for telling the nun to go to hell, for not being a virgin. . . ."") And if Johnson is only occasionally original or illuminating enough in her ideas to measure up to hard-cover compilation, her workaday prose (perfectly fine for a review of the moment) is even more ill-served in this gathering: the word ""interesting,"" for example, is allowed to reappear with almost comic frequency. (In the space of two pages: ""this interesting book. . . the most interesting section of the book. . . Some interesting light is shed. . . ."") Not particularly stylish, then, and only sporadically penetrating (most of the important work in question here has been more richly analyzed elsewhere)--but sturdy, agreeably plain examples of book-reviewing at its most direct and sensibl

Levine shows how Darwin's ideas affected nineteenth-century novelists—from Dickens and Trollope to Conrad. "Levine stands in our day as the premier critic and commentator on Victorian prose."—Frank M. Turner, Nineteenth-Century Literature. "Magnificently written, with a care and delicacy worthy of its subject."—Nina Auerbach, University of Pennsylvania