Aspects of the Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780156091800)

E. M. Forster's guide sparkles with wit and insight for contemporary writers and readers. With lively language and excerpts from well-known classics, Forster (author of A Passage to India, Howards End, and A Room With a View) takes on the seven elements vital to a novel: story, people, plot, fantasy, prophecy, pattern, and rhythm. He not only defines and explains such terms as "round" versus "flat" characters (and why both are needed for an effective novel), but also provides examples of writing from such literary greats as Dickens and Austen. Forster's original commentary illuminates and entertains without lapsing into complicated, scholarly rhetoric, coming together in a key volume on writing."Forster's casual and wittily acute guidance...transmutes the dull stuff of He-Said and She-Said into characters, stories, and intimations of truth."--Harper's

Author: E. M. Forster
ISBN-10: 0156091801
ISBN-13: 9780156091800
Publisher: Mariner Books
Language: English
Published: 09/14/1956
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.33w x 0.48d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/01/2016 pg. 38