Read Like A Writer

There are two ways to learn how to write fiction: by reading it and by writing it. Yes, you can learn lots about writing stories in workshops, in writing classes and writing groups, at writers' conferences. You can learn technique and process by reading the dozens of books like this one on fiction writing and by reading articles in writers' magazines. But the best teachers of fiction are the great works of fiction themselves. You can learn more about the structure of a short story by reading Anton Chekhov's 'Heartache' than you can in a semester of Creative Writing 101. If you read like a writer, that is, which means you have to read everything twice, at least. When you read a story or novel the first time, just let it happen. Enjoy the journey. When you've finished, you know where the story took you, and now you can go back and reread, and this time notice how the writer reached that destination. Notice the choices he made at each chapter, each sentence, each word. (Every word is a choice.) You see now how the transitions work, how a character gets across a room. All this time you're learning. You loved the central character in the story, and now you can see how the writer presented the character and rendered her worthy of your love and attention. The first reading is creative—you collaborate with the writer in making the story. The second reading is critical.


John Dufresne, from his book, The Lie That Tells A Truth: A Guide to Writing Fiction

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume III by Charles Dudley Warner, Editor

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume III by Charles Dudley Warner, Editor
 

LIBRARY OF THE

WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE

ANCIENT AND MODERN




CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER

EDITOR




HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE
LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE
GEORGE HENRY WARNER

ASSOCIATE EDITORS




Connoisseur Edition

VOL. III.

1896



 

 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS


VOL. III.

BERTHOLD AUERBACH--Continued: -- 1812-1882

The First False Step ('On the Heights')

The New Home and the Old One (same)

The Court Physician's Philosophy (same)

In Countess Irma's Diary (same)

ÉMILE AUGIER -- 1820-1889

A Conversation with a Purpose ('Giboyer's Boy')

A Severe Young Judge ('The Adventuress')

A Contented Idler ('M. Poirier's Son-in-Law')

Feelings of an Artist (same)

A Contest of Wills ('The Fourchambaults')

ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO (by Samuel Hart) -- 354-430

The Godly Sorrow that Worketh Repentance ('The Confessions')

Consolation (same)

The Foes of the City ('The City of God')

The Praise of God (same)

A Prayer ('The Trinity')

MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS -- A.D. 121-180

Reflections

JANE AUSTEN -- 1775-1817

An Offer of Marriage ('Pride and Prejudice')

Mother and Daughter (same)

A Letter of Condolence (same)

A Well-Matched Sister and Brother ('Northanger Abbey')

Family Doctors ('Emma')

Family Training ('Mansfield Park')

Private Theatricals (same)

Fruitless Regrets and Apples of Sodom (same)

AVERROËS -- 1126-1198

THE AVESTA (by A.V. Williams Jackson)

Psalm of Zoroaster

Prayer for Knowledge

The Angel of Divine Obedience

To the Fire

The Goddess of the Waters

Guardian Spirits

An Ancient Sindbad

The Wise Man

Invocation to Rain

Prayer for Healing

Fragment

AVICEBRON -- 1028-?1058

On Matter and Form ('The Fountain of Life')

ROBERT AYTOUN -- 1570-1638

Inconstancy Upbraided

Lines to an Inconstant Mistress (with Burns's Adaptation)

WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN -- 1813-1865

Burial March of Dundee ('Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers')

Execution of Montrose (same)

The Broken Pitcher ('Bon Gaultier Ballads')

Sonnet to Britain. "By the Duke of Wellington" (same)

A Ball in the Upper Circles ('The Modern Endymion')

A Highland Tramp ('Norman Sinclair')

MASSIMO TAPARELLI D'AZEGLIO -- 1798-1866

A Happy Childhood ('My Recollections')

The Priesthood (same)

My First Venture in Romance (same)

BABER (by Edward S. Holden) -- 1482-1530

From Baber's 'Memoirs'

BABRIUS -- First Century A.D.

The North Wind and the Sun

Jupiter and the Monkey

The Mouse that Fell into the Pot

The Fox and the Grapes

The Carter and Hercules

The Young Cocks

The Arab and the Camel

The Nightingale and the Swallow

The Husbandman and the stork

The Pine

The Woman and Her Maid-Servants

The Lamp

The Tortoise and the Hare

FRANCIS BACON (by Charlton T. Lewis) -- 1561-1626

Of Truth ('Essays')

Of Revenge (same)

Of Simulation and Dissimulation (same)

Of Travel (same)

Of Friendship (same)

Defects of the Universities ('The Advancement of Learning')

To My Lord Treasurer Burghley

In Praise of Knowledge

To the Lord Chancellor

To Villiers on his Patent as a Viscount

Charge to Justice Hutton

A Prayer, or Psalm

From the 'Apophthegms'

Translation of the 137th Psalm

The World's a Bubble

WALTER BAGEHOT (by Forrest Morgan) -- 1826-1877

The Virtues of Stupidity ('Letters on the French Coup d'État')

Review Writing ('The First Edinburgh Reviewers')

Lord Eldon (same)

Taste ('Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning')

Causes of the Sterility of Literature ('Shakespeare')

The Search for Happiness ('William Cowper')

On Early Reading ('Edward Gibbon')

The Cavaliers ('Thomas Babington Macaulay')

Morality and Fear ('Bishop Butler')

The Tyranny of Convention ('Sir Robert Peel')

How to Be an Influential Politician ('Bolingbroke')

Conditions of Cabinet Government ('The English Constitution')

Why Early Societies could not be Free ('Physics and Politics')

Benefits of Free Discussion in Modern Times (same)

Origin of Deposit Banking ('Lombard Street')

JENS BAGGESEN -- 1764-1826

A Cosmopolitan ('The Labyrinth')

Philosophy on the Heath (same)

There was a Time when I was Very Little

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY -- 1816-

From "Festus": Life: The Passing-Bell; Thoughts;

Dreams; Chorus of the Saved

JOANNA BAILLIE -- 1762-1851

Woo'd and Married and A'

It Was on a Morn when We were Thrang

Fy, Let Us A' to the Wedding

The Weary Pund o' Tow

From 'De Montfort'

To Mrs. Siddons

A Scotch Song

Song, 'Poverty Parts Good Company'

The Kitten

HENRY MARTYN BAIRD -- 1832-

The Battle of Ivry ('The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre')

SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER -- 1821-1893

Hunting in Abyssinia ('The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia')

The Sources of the Nile ('The Albert Nyanza')

ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR -- 1848-

The Pleasures of Reading (Rectorial Address)

THE BALLAD (by F.B. Gummere)

Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne

The Hunting of the Cheviot

Johnie Cock

Sir Patrick Spens

The Bonny Earl of Murray

Mary Hamilton

Bonnie George Campbell

Bessie Bell and Mary Gray

The Three Ravens

Lord Randal

Edward

The Twa Brothers

Babylon

Childe Maurice

The Wife of Usher's Well

Sweet William's Ghost

HONORÉ DE BALZAC (by William P. Trent) -- 1799-1850

The Meeting in the Convent ('The Duchess of Langeais')

An Episode Under the Terror

A Passion in the Desert

The Napoleon of the People ('The Country Doctor')

GEORGE BANCROFT (by Austin Scott) -- 1800-1891

The Beginnings of Virginia ('History of the United States')

Men and Government in Early Massachusetts (same)

King Philip's War (same)

The New Netherland (same)

Franklin (same)


FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME III.


Ancient Irish Miniature (Colored Plate)     Frontispiece
"St. Augustine and His Mother" (Photogravure)     1014
Papyrus, Sermons of St. Augustine (Fac-simile)     1018
Marcus Aurelius (Portrait)     1022
The Zend Avesta (Fac-simile)     1084
Francis Bacon (Portrait)     1156
"The Cavaliers" (Photogravure)     1218
Honoré de Balzac (Portrait)     1348
George Bancroft (Portrait)     1432

VIGNETTE PORTRAITS


Émile Augier
Jane Austen
Robert Aytoun
Walter Bagehot
Jens Baggesen
Philip James Bailey
Joanna Baillie
Henry Martyn Baird
Sir Samuel White Baker
Arthur James Balfour
 

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