An edition of How to write like Tolstoy
(2016)
How to write like Tolstoy
a journey into the minds of our greatest writers
First edition.
by Cohen, Richard A.
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Cohen has researched the published works and private utterances of our greatest authors to discover the elements that made their prose memorable. Evoking the marvelous, the famous, and the irreverent, he reveals the challenges that even the greatest writers faced--and how they surmounted them.
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How to write like Tolstoy: a journey into the minds of our greatest writers
2016
in English
- First edition.
0812998308 9780812998306
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Table of Contents
Grab, invite, beguile: beginnings
Circular ruins: creating character
Stolen words: three forms of plagiarism
The trick of it: points of view
Says you: the art and craft of dialogue
Secret trapdoors: the power of irony
Grabbing fiction by the tale
Waves in the mind: rhythm in prose-writing
"Just like Zorro": writing about sex
Vision and re-vision (part 1)
Vision and re-vision (part 2)
The sense of an ending.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-293) and index.
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