Title: How fiction works
First published: 2009
Description: Provides a somewhat academic approach to a discussion of the main elements of fiction using examples (good and bad) from literature.
Subjects: Fiction, Authorship, Technique, History and criticism, Fiction, technique, New York Times reviewed, Pn3331 .w67 2008, 808.3, Fiction, history and criticism
People: E.M. Forster, Jane Austen, Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), Roland Barthes, Saul Bellow, Miguel de Cervantes, Anton Chekhov, Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), Ford Madox Ford, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, James Joyce (1882-1941), D.H. Lawrence, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1977), Marcel Proust (1871-1922), William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Leo Tolstoy graf (1828-1910), John Updike (1932-2009), Virginia Woolf
LC classification: PN3355 .W66 2009