| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
263 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"First published in Great Britain by Profile Books Ltd."--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
So many novels, so little time -- Declarations of independence -- Every other thing has changed: why hasn't the book changed? -- Fiction: a four-minute history -- Targeting: first find your book -- Preliminaries I -- Closing in -- Preliminaries II -- Titles -- Names -- Worth a thousand words -- Famous first words -- Epigraphs, forewords, and afterwords -- Read one, you've read them all: intertextuality -- On the rack: know your genre -- Getting physical -- See as well as read -- Hardback or paperback? -- What do you do with the novel? read it, listen to it, look at it? -- Real world, fictional world: same world? -- When worlds collide -- Fiction: where the unspeakable can be spoken -- I'm a martian: will I understand Pride and prejudice? -- Can review help? -- Bestsellers -- The prize novel -- Book of the film? Film of the book? -- After all is said and done, what use are they? |
| Subject |
Fiction -- Study and teaching.
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| ISBN |
0312359888 |
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9780312359881 |
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