Here is one of the most intelligent and useful guides to the craft of fiction ever published. Acknowledged by teachers, students, and writers as the indispensable book in the field, Technique in Fiction has been in print for over two decades. For this fully updated second edition, Robie Macauley and George Lanning have rewritten their discussions of the major technical questions and practices of fiction: setting, plot, characterization, point-of-view, style, pace and tone, and theme. These and other crucial points are illustrated with examples from Tolstoy, Forster, and James through...
Here is one of the most intelligent and useful guides to the craft of fiction ever published. Acknowledged by teachers, students, and writers as th...
Unjustly convicted of treason, Alfred Dreyfus has spent five years in solitary confinement on Devil's Island in the Caribbean. He is weak from starvation and hopelessness. In Paris, his friends have secretly conspired to help him escape. They hire three unlikely adventurers to engineer one the most daring prison breaks in history: Dynamite Johnny O'Brien, smuggler and explosives expert; William Astor Chanler, millionaire, soldier, and US Congressman; and internationally-acclaimed actress Judith Rougemont. But Caliban, an agent of the French Secret Service, has found out about the plot and...
Unjustly convicted of treason, Alfred Dreyfus has spent five years in solitary confinement on Devil's Island in the Caribbean. He is weak from starvat...
