Letters to Isabella Stewart Gardner by Henry James
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Category: On Writing | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
Surrounded by the artists, writers and musicians who made up her court in Boston as they did in Venice, Isabella Stewart Gardner, a passionate art collector, was as revered and sought after as royalty. Henry James was inspired by the rich and powerful Gardner, as well as by the Palazzo Barbaro in Venice ...Show more
Henry James' Travel: Fiction and Non-Fiction
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Category: On Writing
Henry James’ Travel: Fiction and Non-Fiction offers a multifaceted approach to Henry James’s idea and practice of travel from the perspective of the globalized world today. Henry James’ Travel: Fiction and Non-Fiction offers a multifaceted approach to Henry James’ idea and practice of travel from the pe ...Show more
The Life of Henry James: A Critical Biography by Peter Collister
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Category: On Writing
Discover anew the life and influence of Henry James, part of the acclaimed Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies series. In The Life of Henry James: A Critical Biography, Peter Collister, an established critic and authority on Henry James, offers an original and fully documented account of one of America ...Show more
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You by Alexander McCall Smith
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Category: On Writing
Bestselling novelist Alexander McCall Smith's charming account of how the poet W. H. Auden has helped guide his life — and how he might guide yours tooWhen facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie — Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling autho ...Show more
Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare by Will Tosh
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Category: On Writing
'Magisterial and saucy . . . This fresh account kickstarts the queer canon of English literature: Shakespeare won't go back in the closet again'EMMA SMITH, author of This Is ShakespeareWas Shakespeare gay? The answer is both simpler and more complex than you might think . . .Shakespeare's work was profo ...Show more
She played and sang: Jane Austen and music by Gillian Dooley
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Category: On Writing
Jane Austen, widely acclaimed as one of the greatest English novelists, possessed another talent that enriched her life and work – music. She played and sang draws on the newly digitised music books of the Austen family, granting us a deeper understanding of the writer's artistic prowess and the influen ...Show more
On Kim Scott : Writers on Writers by Tony Birch
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Category: On Writing
'I value Kim Scott's fiction so highly because I feel that his approach is to put the flags aside. That Deadman Dance asks us not to consider who we were so much as who we could be, collectively, in the future.'Noongar writer Kim Scott has won the Miles Franklin Award twice for his novels. In this movin ...Show more
Marlow's Dream - Joseph Conrad in Antipodean Ports by Martin Edmond
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Category: On Writing
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) is a major figure in modern literature. Before his writing career was established in 1899 with the serialised publication of Heart of Darkness, Conrad was a merchant seafarer and eventually a shipmaster of vessels that regularly sailed between Europe and its antipodes, with sev ...Show more
How Fiction Works by James Wood
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Category: On Writing
In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, How Fiction Works is a scintillating study of the magic of fiction--an analysis of its main elements and a celebration of its lasting power. Here one of the most prominent and stylish critics of our time l ...Show more
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter by John McWhorter
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Category: On Writing
The New York Times bestseller now in paperback. One of the preeminent linguists of our time examines the realms of language that are considered shocking and taboo in order to understand what imbues curse words with such power--and why we love them so much. Profanity has always been a deliciously vibrant ...Show more
Method Writing - The First Four Concepts by Jack Grapes
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Category: On Writing
Method Writing is a powerful approach to finding your deep voice and activating the creative process. Based on a series of concepts and exercises Grapes has used in his writing workshops over the last 30-plus years, Method Writing does more than describe techniques: it takes you step-by-step through a p ...Show more
Advanced Method Writing by Jack Grapes
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Category: On Writing
METHOD WRITING is based on concepts developed by Jack Grapes and used in his writing workshops over the last 35 years. This method activates the creative process by expanding and deepening the writer's voice through a step-by-step series of exercises. The result is work that is unique and powerful. Grap ...Show more