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How Fiction Works by James Wood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Words and 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 and searching study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue, realism, and style. In his first full-length book of c ...Show more
How Fiction Works by James Wood
$29.95 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
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
Serious Noticing - Selected Essays, 1999-2019 by James Wood
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$65.95 (4% off)
Category: Critical Thinking
The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works 'James Wood is a close reader of genius... By turns luscious and muscular, committed and disdaining, passionate and minutely considered' John Banville James Wood is one of the leading critics of the ...Show more
Serious Noticing - Selected Essays, 1999-2019 by James Wood
$34.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
The definitive collection of literary essays byThe New Yorker's award-winning longtime book critic Ever since the publication of his first essay collection,The Broken Estate, in 1999, James Wood has been widely regarded as a leading literary critic of the English-speaking world. His essays on canonical ...Show more
The Book of Common Prayer by James Wood
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Category: Religion | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
For the 350th anniversary of the 1662 edition intimately familiar to our most enduring writers, an exquisite deluxe edition of the Anglican prayer book and literary masterpiece. As essential to the canon as the Bible and the plays of Shakespeare, "The Book of Common Prayer" has been in daily use for cen ...Show more
The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays by James Wood
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Category: Critical Thinking
Following "The Broken Estate," "The Irresponsible Self," and "How Fiction Works"--books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation--"The Fun Stuff c"onfirms Wood's preeminence, not only as a discerning judge but also as an appreciator of the contemporary novel. In twenty-three p ...Show more
The Fun Stuff and Other Essays by James Wood
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$22.99 (73% off)
Category: Critical Thinking
Following The Broken Estate, The Irresponsible Self, and How Fiction Works- books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation - The Fun Stuffconfirms Wood's pre-eminence, not only as a discerning judge but also as an appreciator of the contemporary novel. In twenty-three passiona ...Show more
The Nearest Thing to Life by James Wood
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Category: Critical Thinking
In this remarkable blend of memoir and criticism, James Wood has written a master class on the connections between fiction and life. He argues that, of all the arts, fiction has a unique ability to describe the shape of our lives, and to rescue the texture of those lives from death and historical oblivi ...Show more
Upstate by James Wood
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
New Yorker book critic and award-winning author James Wood delivers a novel of a family struggling to connect with one another and find meaning in their own lives. In the years since his daughter Vanessa moved to America to become a professor of philosophy, Alan Querry has never been to visit. He ha ...Show more
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