| Description |
322 pages ; 21 cm. |
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Professional writers library
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Professional writers library.
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| Contents |
Autobiographical / Anthony Trollope -- Mainly autobiographical / Paul Gallico -- Exhortation to those who want to write / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Breaking into print / Sinclair Lewis -- Making a name in literature / Edmund Gosse -- The decline and fall / John T. Winterich -- The story of "Treasure island" / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The philosophy of composition / Edgar Allan Poe -- The writing of "Ethan Frome" / Edith Wharton -- How "studs lonigan" was written / James T. Farrell -- Myself upon the earth / William Saroyan -- The story of "a shropshire lad" / Grant Richards -- Author's nursemaid / George Stevens -- A letter to an author / Maxwell E. Perkins -- Style and the man / John Burroughs -- Literary style / Henry David Thoreau -- The written word and the spoken word / Georg Brandes -- Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses / Mark Twain -- Diseases of small authorship / George Eliot -- On the conversation of authors / William Hazlitt -- My old penholder / George Gissing -- Criticus, the true critic / Ben Jonson -- Criticising a critic / Voltaire -- A pot-poet / John Earle |
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Authorship.
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Authorship. |
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Creative writing.
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Creative writing. |
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