How to write like Tolstoy: a journey into the minds of our greatest writers
✍ Scribed by Richard Cohen
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0812998316
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
For anyone who has ever identified with a hero or heroine, been seduced by a strong opening sentence, or been powerfully moved by a story's end, How to Write Like Tolstoy is a thought-provoking journey inside the minds of the world's most accomplished storytellers, from Shakespeare to Stephen King.
"I have tried, as far as possible using the words of the authors themselves, to explain their craft, aiming to take readers on a journey into the concerns, techniques, tricks, flaws, and, occasionally, obsessions of our most luminous writers." --from the Preface
Behind every acclaimed work of literature is a trove of heartfelt decisions. The best authors put painstaking--sometimes obsessive--effort into each element of their stories, from plot and character development to dialogue and point of view.
What made Nabokov choose the name Lolita? Why did Fitzgerald use first-person narration in The Great Gatsby? How did Kerouac, who raged against...