How to Write Like Tolstoy

How to Write Like Tolstoy
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9781786070227
ISBN-13 : 1786070227
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Book Synopsis How to Write Like Tolstoy by : Richard Cohen

Download or read book How to Write Like Tolstoy written by Richard Cohen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Spectator Best Book of the Year ‘There are three rules for writing a novel,’ Somerset Maugham once said. ‘Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.’ So how to bring characters to life, find a voice, kill your darlings, avoid plagiarism (or choose not to), or run that most challenging of literary gauntlets—writing a good sex scene? Veteran editor and author Richard Cohen takes us on a fascinating excursion into the lives and minds of our greatest writers—from Balzac and Eliot to Woolf and Nabokov, through to Zadie Smith and Stephen King, with a few mischievous detours to Tolstoy along the way. In a glittering tour d’horizon, he lays bare their tricks, motivations, techniques, obsessions and flaws.


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