Reading Like a Writer
A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
Ranked #21 in Creative Writing, Ranked #22 in Writing — see more rankings.
In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters to discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire readers to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart - to take pleasure in the long and magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; she is deeply moved by the brilliant characterization in George Eliot's Middlemarch. She... more
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Reading Like a Writer is ranked in the following categories:
- #86 in Creative
- #49 in Editing
- #30 in Essay Writing
- #87 in Fiction Writing
- #83 in Rhetoric
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