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How to Write Like Tolstoy : A Journey Into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers download

How to Write Like Tolstoy : A Journey Into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers download

How to Write Like Tolstoy : A Journey Into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers by Richard Cohen
How to Write Like Tolstoy : A Journey Into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers
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Author: Richard Cohen
Number of Pages: 352 pages
Published Date: 31 May 2016
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
Type: Pdf
ISBN: 9780812998306
File Name: how.to.write.like.tolstoy.a.journey.into.the.minds.of.our.greatest.writers.pdf
Download Link: how to write like tolstoy a journey into the minds of our greatest writers
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For anyone who has ever identified with a hero or heroine, been seduced by a strong opening sentence, or been powerfully moved by a story’s end,How to Write Like Tolstoy is a thought-provoking journey inside the minds of the world’s most accomplished storytellers, from Shakespeare to Stephen King.   “Great writers can be inhibiting, and maybe after one has read a Scott Fitzgerald or Henry James one can’t escape imitat­ing them; but more often such writers are inspiring.”—Richard Cohen   Behind every acclaimed work of literature is a trove of heartfelt decisions. The best authors put painstaking—sometimes obsessive—effort into each element of their stories, from plot and character development to dialogue and point of view.   What made Nabokov choose the name Lolita? Why did Fitzgerald use first-person narration in The Great Gatsby? How did Kerouac, who raged against revision, finally come to revise On the Road? Veteran editor and teacher Richard Cohen draws on his vast reservoir of a lifetime’s reading and his insight into what makes good prose soar. Here are Gabriel García Márquez’s thoughts on how to start a novel (“In the first paragraph you solve most of the problems with your book”); Virginia Woolf offering her definition of style (“It is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words”); and Vladimir Nabokov on the nature of fiction (“All great novels are great fairy tales”).   Cohen has researched the published works and private utterances of our greatest authors to discover the elements that made their prose memorable. The result is a unique exploration of the act and art of writing that enriches our experience of reading both the classics and the best modern fiction. Evoking the marvelous, the famous, and the irreverent, he reveals the challenges that even the greatest writers faced—and shows us how they surmounted them.   Advance praise for How to Write Like Tolstoy   “This book is a wry, critical friend to both writer and reader. It is filled with cogent examples and provoking statements. You will agree or quarrel with each page, and be a sharper writer and reader by the end.”—Hilary Mantel

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