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How to Write Like Tolstoy: A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers By Richard Cohen 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 revision, finally come to revise On the Road? Veteran editor and teacher Richard Cohen draws on his vast reservoir of a lifetime’s reading and his insight into what makes good prose soar. Here are Gabriel García Márquez’s thoughts on how to start a novel (“In the first paragraph you solve most of the problems with your book”); Virginia Woolf offering her definition of style (“It is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words”); and Vladimir Nabokov on the nature of fiction (“All great novels are great fairy tales”). Cohen has researched the published works and private utterances of our greatest authors to discover the elements that made their prose memorable. The result is a unique exploration of the act and art of writing that enriches our experience of reading both the classics and the best modern fiction. Evoking the marvelous, the famous, and the irreverent, he reveals the challenges that even the greatest writers faced—and shows us how they surmounted them. Table of contents : PREFACE CHAPTER 1 Grab, Invite, Beguile: Beginnings CHAPTER 2 Circular Ruins: Creating Character CHAPTER 3 Stolen Words: Three Forms of Plagiarism CHAPTER 4 The Trick of It: Points of View CHAPTER 5 Says You: The Art and Craft of Dialogue CHAPTER 6 Secret Trapdoors: The Power of Irony CHAPTER 7 Grabbing Fiction by the Tale CHAPTER 8 Waves in the Mind: Rhythm in Prose-Writing CHAPTER 9 “Just Like Zorro”: Writing About Sex CHAPTER 10 Vision and Re-vision (Part 1) CHAPTER 11 Vision and Re-vision (Part 2) CHAPTER 12 The Sense of an Ending

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