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The Science Fiction Novel Workbook: The Offline Tool For Getting Your Novel Done

Autor: James S. Aaron

Die Pionierinnen: Wie Journalistinnen nach 1945 unseren Blick auf die Welt veränderten

Autor: Rainer Hank

Save the Cat! Writes a Young Adult Novel: The Ultimate Guide to Writing a YA Bestseller

Autor: Jessica Brody

Schwester Tod: Weibliche Trauerkultur - Abschiedsrituale, Gedenkbräuche, Erinnerungsfeste

Autor: Erni Kutter

Novelist as a Vocation

Autoren: Haruki Murakami
Übersetzer: Philip Gabriel, Ted Goossen

So lektorieren Sie Ihre Texte. Verbessern durch Überarbeiten: Schritt für Schritt von der Erstfassung zum fertigen Manuskript

Autor: Sylvia Englert

Das einfachste Online-Business der Welt: Dein Weg zu persönlicher und finanzieller Freiheit - mit der perfekten Amazon Kindle-Business-Strategie

Autor: Grigori Kalinski

Hotel Adlon: Das Berliner Hotel, in dem die große Welt zu Gast war

Autor: Hedda Adlon

Ich habe ein Buch geschrieben – Was nun?: Ein Ratgeber für Autoren

Autor: Wilhelm Ruprecht Frieling

Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters

Anne Boyd Rioux

A Little History of Literature

John Sutherland

The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers

Ayn Rand

It is hard to be ambivalent about Ayn Rand. Rand spoke in absolutes, and either you buy it or you don't. There is plenty of fiber and nutritious material in this book, but the Rand agnostic may find it hard to digest. Rand's ego is enormous and her dismissiveness petty most every step of the way. " In regard to precision of language, " says Rand, who uses her work throughout the book to exemplify her points, " I think I myself am the best writer today. " But woe to any other author, excluding Victor Hugo, Mickey Spillane, and, with reservations, Dostoyevsky. " To see how not to write, " advises Rand, "read [ Thomas Wolfe's] descriptive passages. " Sinclair Lewis, she says, is a "perceptive but superficial observer. " James Joyce? " He is worse than Gertrude Stein. . . . He uses words from different languages, makes up some words of his own, and calls that literature. "

Still, Rand does have some useful things to say to the fiction writer. Perhaps most important is her emphatic belief in the concrete. " In order to be completely free with words, " she intones, "you must know countless concretes under your abstractions. " It is only the concrete, she adds, that will lead the reader to your abstractions, your themes. Along related lines, Rand believes firmly that " If a writer feels that he was unable fully to express what he wanted to express, it means that he did not know clearly what he wanted to express"-no more blaming it on writer's block for you! And remember: " A good style is one that conveys the most with the greatest economy of words. " This means that "when you draw a character, everything that you say about him acquires significance by the mere fact of being included in your story. " The bottom line is that " Art is < I>selectivity. " < I>-Jane Steinberg

Leaves of Grass and Other Writings (Norton Critical Editions)

Walt Whitman

The Book of Legendary Lands

Umberto Eco

Gun in Cheek: An Affectionate Guide to the "Worst" in Mystery Fiction

Bill Pronzini

Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry

Kenneth Koch

Sticking It To The Man: Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1950 to 1980

Booked: A Traveler's Guide to Literary Locations Around the World

Richard Kreitner

The Return of the Native

Thomas Hardy

Earphones Award Winner ( Audio File Magazine)

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Set on Egdon Heath, a fictional barren moor in Wessex, Eustacia Vye longs for the excitement of city life but is cut off from the world in her grandfather's lonely cottage. Clym Yeobright who has returned to the area to become a schoolmaster seems to offer everything she dreams of: passion, excitement and the opportunity to escape. However, Clym's ambitions are quite different from hers, and marriage only increases Eustacia's destructive restlessness, drawing others into a tangled web of deceit and unhappiness.  

Considered a truly modern story due to its sexual politics and hindered desires it still holds relevance to audiences today. There is a tension between the symbolic setting of the heath and the modernity of the characters that makes the listener question our freedom to shape our lives as we wish. Are we always able to live our dreams?  

Like George Eliot, Hardy was a Victorian realist whose novels and poetry were greatly influenced by Romanticism, especially the poet William Wordsworth. His critical thoughts on Victorian society can be seen throughout much of his work.  

Narrator Biography 

Multi-award winning actor and director Alan Rickman, famous for roles such as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films and the Sherriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), had a varied career that included performing on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company in modern and classical theatre productions. In America, he gained recognition for his Broadway appearance in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1985) and later his role in Die Hard (1988) made him internationally famous. Other notable performances included his 2001 return to the West End and Broadway in Noël Coward's Private Lives and Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman in 2010. Rickman is most remembered for his roles in films such as Love Actually (2003) and Sweeney Todd (2007) as well as voicing Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), and Absalom the Caterpillar in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010).  

Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe (English Edition)

Autor: Anthony Grafton

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