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Reprint of the 1878 illustrated book.

The King’s Warrant

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Reprint of the 1919 book.

I. THE PURPOSE OF FICTION

II. REALISM AND ROMANCE

III. THE NATURE OF NARRATIVE

IV. PLOT

V. CHARACTERS

VI. SETTING

VII. THE POINT OF VIEW IN NARRATIVE

VIII. EMPHASIS IN NARRATIVE

IX. THE EPIC, THE DRAMA, AND THE NOVEL

X. THE NOVEL, THE NOVELETTE, AND THE SHORT-STORY

XI. THE STRUCTURE OF THE SHORT-STORY

XII. THE FACTOR OF STYLE

A Manual of the Art of Fiction

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This new anthology is designed for Introduction to Fiction courses. It features Robert DiYanni’s clear presentation of the elements along with his three-part pedagogy of experience, interpretation, and evaluation. FICTION also includes full coverage of writing about fiction with two student papers.

Fiction: An Introduction

• ISBN13: 9780470530702
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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A complete guide to writing and selling your novel

So you want to write a novel? Great! That’s a worthy goal, no matter what your reason. But don’t settle for just writing a novel. Aim high. Write a novel that you intend to sell to a publisher. Writing Fiction for Dummies is a complete guide designed to coach you every step along the path from beginning writer to royalty-earning author. Here are some things you’ll learn in Writing Fiction for Dummies:

• Strategic

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This audio course is designed for anyone who is dreaming to join the honorable circle or fiction writers. This course will lead you step-by-step through the difficult issues of the writers profession, helping to overcome some common difficulties so your spirit can be liberated, your talent can shine fearlessly and the stream of your writing will be uninterrupted and brilliant.

Fiction Writing, Foundation Audio Course

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1.) Plot: How to build shot stories and novels that dont sag, fizzle, or trail off in scraps of frustrtate revision and hot to rescue stories that do. By Ansen Dibell. ISBN: 0898793033. © 1988;

2.) Characters & Viewpoint: How to invent, construct, and animate vivid, credible characters and chose the best eyes through which to view the events of your short story or novel. By Orson Scott Card. ISBN: 0898793076. © 1988;

3.) Dialogue: How to get your characters talking to each other in a way that vividly reveals who they are, that theyre doing,…

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This critical study of The Canterbury Tales contains full separate readings of each tale, together with clear exposition of historical and literary background. The book approaches Chaucer through modern theoretical perspectives, focusing particularly on gender, political and narratological approaches, and it also presents critical views of Chaucer from the past. Chaucer’s reputation as a bawdy humorist and protonovelist, specializing in character, realism and irony, is reexamined in more modern and subtle terms than the traditional picture usually associated with him.

An Introduction To the Canterbury Tales: Fiction, Writing, Context

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Carefully graded pupil books, for years 3 to 6, focus on the core skills and will help pupils develop their ideas and gain confidence in their writing ability. They provide coverage of a range of text types and genres, including narrative, drama, poetry, recount, instructional, reports, explanatory, persuasive and discursive writing, following the NLS objectives for Teaching English at KS2. Designed to support the CDs, “Igniting Writing Pupils’ Books” offer a skills-based approach to aid pupils in extended writing tasks for fiction, non-fiction and poetry. They use Sue Palmer’s writing skeletons to help pupils’ structure both fiction and…

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Popular fiction includes romance, thrillers and fantasy but this book covers how to write all types of popular fiction. The guide explains how to start out, how to avoid pitfalls in writing and how to get your work published. The author stresses the prime importance of characters and advises spending time on their development and motivation at an early stage. She discusses the research, style, dialogue and construction in writing and includes examples of how to write, alternative publishing channels, organizations and reference books for authors. Rona Randall was also the author of “Broken Tapestry” which won the…

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“A very moving, intensely fascinating literary biography from an extraordinary writer. Thoroughly admirable candor and luminous stylistic precision; the artist as a young man and a memorable picture of an age.” —William Gibson

“Absolutely central to any consideration of black manhood. . . . Delany’s vision of the necessity for total social and political transformation is revolutionary.” —Hazel Carby

“The prose of The Motion of Light in Water often has the shimmering beauty of the title itself. . . . This book is invaluable gay history.” —Inches Magazine

Born in New York City’s black ghetto Harlem…