![]() Wood ranges widely, from Homer to Beatrix Potter, from the Bible to John Le Carré, and his book is both a study of the techniques of fiction-making and an alternative history of the novel. 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 a series of fundamental questions. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, How Fiction Works is a study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue, realism, and style. ![]() ![]() Why do most endings of novels disappoint? What do we mean when we say we 'know' a fictional character? literary critic we have' ( New York Review of Books) in this new revised 10th anniversary edition. ![]() Rediscover this deep, practical anatomy of the novel from 'the strongest. ![]()
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