Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri's Art of Dramatic Writing. Taking up specifics (When do flashbacks work, and when should you avoid them? How do you make characters both vivid and sympathetic?) and generalities (How are novels structured? How do writers establis...(展开全部)

Widely used in introductory literature courses as a style guide or as a supplement to anthologies, this book provides valuable guidelines for interpreting literature and writing essays. It includes full-length selections as well as essays.

An essential collection of William Faulkner’s mature nonfiction work, updated, with an abundance of new material. This unique volume includes Faulkner’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, a review of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (in which he suggests that Hemingway has found God), and newly collected gems, such as the acerbic essay “On Criticism” and the beguiling “Not...(展开全部)

An essential collection of William Faulkner’s mature nonfiction work, updated, with an abundance of new material. This unique volume includes Faulkner’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, a review of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (in which he suggests that Hemingway has found God), and newly collected gems, such as the acerbic essay “On Criticism” and the beguiling “Not...(展开全部)

作者简介： 以赛亚·伯林(1909—1997)　英国哲学家和政治思想史家,20世纪最著名的自由主义知识分子之一。出生于俄国里加的一个犹太人家庭,1920年随父母前往英国。1928年进入牛津大学攻读文学和哲学,1932年获选全灵学院研究员,并在新学院任哲学讲师,其间与艾耶尔、奥斯汀等参与了普通语言哲学的运动。二战期间,先后在纽约、华盛顿和莫斯科担任外交职务。1946年重回牛津教授哲学课程,并把研究方向转向思想史。1957年成为牛津大学社会与政治理论教授,并获封爵士。1966年至1975年担任牛津大学沃尔森学院院长。主要著作有《自由四论》（1969，后扩充为《自由论》）、《俄国思想家》(1978)、《反潮流》(1979)、《个人印象》(1980)、《扭曲的人性之材》（1990）、《现实感》(1996)、《浪漫主义的根源》（1999）、《启蒙的三个批评者...(展开全部)