How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (16 works) vs The Author's Craft: Which Should You Read?

Cover of How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (16 works) How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (16 works) Mark Twain · 1897 ★★★★☆ 4.0 333 pages · ≈ 6 h 10 m · Challenging

How to tell a story. In defence of Harriet Shelley. Fenimore Cooper's literary offences. Traveling with a reformer. Private history of the "Jumping frog" story. Mental telegraphy again. What Paul Bourget thinks of us. A…

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Cover of The Author's Craft The Author's Craft Arnold Bennett · 1914 ★★★☆☆ 3.3 121 pages · ≈ 2 h 14 m · Challenging

The author of The Grand Babylon Hotel, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, The Old Wives' Tale and much more, English writer Arnold Bennett's fictional and non-fictional works have stood the test of time. Bennett also wrote…

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How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (16 works)The Author's Craft
Goodreads — 3.2 (99)
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Apple Books 4.0 (142) —

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How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (16 works)The Author's Craft
Ratings 142 99
Editions 17 27
Pages 333 121

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