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A series of 48 critical articles published in Writing Magazine and Writers News between September 1994 and July 1999.
Well-regarded essays on classic novelists and writing-related topics written from the point of view of a published working novelist. Aim? To encourage would-be authors to learn from great former practitioners:
o Characterisation and Parables in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
o Themes & obsessions in Daphne du Maurier's work
o Virginia Woolf and the stream of consciousness
o Margaret Drabble's first major novel A Summer Bird Cage
o The work of William Golding
o How Mary Renault breathed life into mythical Greece
o A look at John Fowles' use of viewpoint
o The clarity and deceptive simplicity of Ernest Hemingway
o A look at the work of Graham Greene - story is struggle
o Doris Lessing writes to explore themes and to discover
o E M Forster's novels have a dimension beyond plot and storyline
o A look at the technique of Muriel Spark
o D H Lawrence believed in the voice of one's being
o A S Byatt and the art of storytelling
o Was John Wyndham a science fiction writer?
o Katherine Mansfield's short stories - use of dialogue
o Alice Walker writes about taboos
o Mervyn Peake's visual sense is apparent in his novels
o Angela Carter and magic realism
o Iris Murdoch - complex ideas carried by narrative drive
o George Orwell, creator of modern myths
o Verbal, dramatic and universal irony in F Scott Fitzgerald
o How style underpins voice in William Faulkner
o Lawrence Durrell's writing - rooted in a sense of place
o Humour in Nancy Mitford depends on the reversal of expectations
o Conflict between love and duty in Olivia Manning
o Lucidity, simplicity and euphony in Somerset Maugham
o The impact of the First World War on society and literary themes
o Did Virginia Woolf create the plotless novel?
o The views of HE Bates on the modern short story and film
o The legacy of the fairy tale - still with us today
o On the humour of P G Wodehouse
o E Annie Proulx - a contemporary literary great
o Characters as symbols in Oliver Twist and Mary Barton
o The Brontës and the creation of the demon lover
o The interweaving of storyline and characters in Margaret Atwood
o Dark stylism and bitter humour in Martin Amis
o Salman Rushdie's multi-cultural narratives
o Lewis Carrol, not quaint but quirky
o The frustrations of women hemmed in by society
o How love of language drove J R R Tolkien's story-telling
o The banal and the bizarre in the humour of Beryl Bainbridge
o Ironic allusions in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey
o Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - gothic, horror or science fiction?
o Have John Galsworthy's sagas withstood the test of time?
o How Dostoevsky used dreams to reveal character
o On reality and imagination in Michèle Roberts
o Edgar Allan Poe - master of the macabre
Copyright © 2007 Carol Townend. All rights reserved.
Current edition: Hardback John Blake Publishing 2006
(1st published GB 1995 Hardback Smith Gryphon)
