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The House of Fiction: An Anthology of the Short Story with Commentary

The House of Fiction: An Anthology of the Short Story with Commentary

Gordon, Caroline
Tate, Allen

Hardcover

Fiction AnthologiesClassic Fiction

ISBN10: 1685950264
ISBN13: 9781685950262
Publisher: Cluny Media
Published: Mar 2 2022
Pages: 564
Weight: 2.15
Height: 1.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A good work of fiction, Caroline Gordon remarks in How to Read a Novel, is the competent fashioning of a story out of the intangible, mysterious stuff of life. The House of Fiction, edited by Gordon and Allen Tate, is an anthology of short stories collected in the effusive light of that principle. Fiction is a craft; as such, they write, it has its secrets of technique which not only appear in the works of all the masters of the craft but which have been handed down from master to master throughout the ages. Each of the twenty-three stories in this volume illustrates the various ways that those techniques can be (or ought not to be) employed, in the medium of the short story, in the pursuit of the art's final end. Most of these stories carry Commentaries to facilitate recognition of those techniques and their effects in a given story. Concluding the anthology is a brilliant Appendix of Notes on Fictional Techniques, presenting the basic methods of the craft as well as the main faults of its inexperienced or impetuous practitioners.

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