How to Tell a Story: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Storytelling for Writers and Readers by Aristotle
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Category: Reference Literature | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
Aristotle’s Poetics is the most important book ever written for writers and readers of stories—whether novels, short fiction, plays, screenplays, or nonfiction. Aristotle was the first to identify the keys to plot, character, audience perception, tragic pleasure, and dozens of other critical points of g ...Show more
The Joy of Small Things by Hannah Jane Parkinson
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Category: Reference Literature
Drawn from the popular Guardian column these everyday exultations and inspirations will get you through dismal days.Hannah Jane Parkinson is a specialist in savouring the small pleasures of life. She revels in her fluffy dressing gown ('like bathing in marshmallow'), finds calm in solo cinema trips, is ...Show more
How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo
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Category: Reference Literature
A stunningly important piece of criticism that asks us not to look away when our shared culture proves so appallingly limited but instead to look harder. To think smarter. To read better.An exploration and manifesto investigating the power of reading - and our potential to become radically better reader ...Show more
Writers Who Changed History by DK; James Naughtie (Foreword by)
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Category: Reference Literature
This stunning visual celebration of the world's most celebrated novelists, poets, and playwrights tells the fascinating stories of their lives and works. Lavishly illustrated with portraits of each writer, alongside photographs of their homes and studies, and personal artefacts - along with pages from ...Show more
Words From the Heart - An Emotional Dictionary by Susie Dent
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Category: Reference Literature
Whether it's the distress of a bad haircut (AGE-OTORI) or longing for the food someone else is eating (GROAKING), the pleasure found in other people's happiness (CONFELICITY) or the shock of jumping into icy water (CURGLAFF), there are real words to pinpoint exactly how you feel and Susie Dent, Queen of ...Show more
On Identity by Stan Grant
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Category: Reference Literature | Series: On Series
Stan Grant asks why when it comes to identity he is asked to choose between black and white. Is identity a myth? A constructed story we tell ourselves? Tribalism, nationalism and sectarianism are dividing the world into us and them. Communities are a tinderbox of anger and resentment. He passionately ho ...Show more
Writing Wild - Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World by Kathryn Aalto
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Category: Reference Literature
"An exciting, expert, and invaluable group portrait of seminal women writers enriching a genre crucial to our future." --Booklist In Writing Wild, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women, both historical and current, whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural wor ...Show more
Bibliophile: Diverse Spines by Jane Mount, Jamise Harper
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Category: Reference Literature | Series: Bibliophile Ser.
It's time to diversify your reading list.This richly illustrated and vastly inclusive collection uplifts the works of authors who are often underrepresented in the literary world. Using their keen knowledge and deep love for all things literary, coauthors Jamise Harper (founder of the Diverse Spines boo ...Show more