Textbooks
Explore our curated textbooks list featuring essential reads for writers and fiction lovers, including Janet Burroway's *Writing Fiction*, Virginia Woolf's *A Room of One's Own*, and Flannery O'Connor's *The Complete Stories*.
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A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
Woolf's celebrated essay based on the thesis that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
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One Writer's Beginnings (The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization)
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The Complete Stories
by Flannery O'Connor
Winner of the National Book Award The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime--Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find. O'Connor published her first story, "The Geranium," in 1946, while she was working on her master's degree at the University of Iowa. Arranged chronologically, this collection shows that her last story, "Judgement Day"--sent to her publisher shortly before her death—is a brilliantly rewritten and transfigured version of "The Geranium." Taken together, these stories reveal a lively, penetrating talent that has given us some of the most powerful and disturbing fiction of the twentieth century. Also included is an introduction by O'Connor's longtime editor and friend, Robert Giroux.
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Writing Fiction
by Janet Burroway
Earlier. Topics include free-writing to revision, plot, style, characterization, dialogue, atmosphere, imagery, and point of view. An anthology of diverse and contemporary short stories followed by suggestions for discussion and writing exercises, illustrates concepts while offering variety in pacing and exposure to this increasingly popular form. The book also discusses key issues including writing workshops, using autobiography as a basis for fiction, using action in stories, using.
