How to Write Like Tolstoy

A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers

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A Spectator Best Book of the Year

'This book is a wry, critical friend to both writer and reader. It is filled with cogent examples and provoking statements. You will agree or quarrel with each page, and be a sharper writer and reader by the end.' Hilary Mantel

'There are three rules for writing a novel,' Somerset Maugham once said. 'Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.'

So how to bring characters to life, find a voice, kill your darlings, avoid plagiarism (or choose not to), or run that most challenging of literary gauntlets-writing a good sex scene?

Veteran editor and author Richard Cohen takes us on a fascinating excursion into the lives and minds of our greatest writers-from Balzac and Eliot to Woolf and Nabokov, through to Zadie Smith and Stephen King, with a few mischievous detours to Tolstoy along the way. In a glittering tour d'horizon, he lays bare their tricks, motivations, techniques, obsessions and flaws.

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Authors:
Cohen, Richard
Year Published:
2017
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9781786071651
Number of Pages:
352
Publication Date:
07/09/2017
Publisher:
Oneworld Publications
Publication Date:
07/09/2017
Place of Publication:
London
SKU:
9781786071651

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