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How Fiction Works by James Wood
$39.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
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 criticism, one of the most prominent critics of our time takes the machinery of story-telling apart to ask ...Show more
How Fiction Works by James Wood
$28.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Reading Level: fair
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
Serious Noticing - Selected Essays, 1999-2019 by James Wood
$30.00 NZD
$45.00 (33% off)
Category: Essays & Anthologies | Reading Level: very good
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
$26.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy, Spirituality & 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 Nearest Thing to Life by James Wood
$36.99 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies | Reading Level: very good
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
$18.39 NZD
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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