A searching study of the main elements of fiction including narrative, detail, characterisation, dialogue, realism and style. From Homer to Beatrix Potter, this is both a study of the techniques of fiction-making and an alternative...

A father and daughter travel to a wintry location in upstate New York to meet another daughter, who has recently undergone a crisis as part of a timeline of depression. The three contemplate the situation of some finding life harder than...

A blend of memoir and criticism, and a masterclass on the connections between fiction and life, from a widely recognised and important critic, explaining what makes him passionate about writing.

Following The Broken Estate, The Irresponsible Self, and How Fiction Works âEUR" books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation âEUR" The Fun Stuff confirms WoodâEUR(TM)s pre-eminence, not only as a discerning...

Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern - English and foreign sources: including phrases, mottoes, maxims, proverbs, definitions, aphorisms, and sayings of the wise men, in their bearing on life is an unchanged, high-quality...

Wood takes aim at E.M. Forster's longtime standard-bearer "Aspects of the Novel," in this eminently readable and thought-provoking treatise on the ways, whys, and hows of writing and reading fiction.

New Yorker book critic and award-winning author James Wood delivers a novel of a family struggling to connect with one another and find meaning in their own lives. In the years since his daughter Vanessa moved to America to become a...

The Book Against God von Wood, James

Are you an aspiring ABAP cook looking for professional ABAP recipes? Or are you already the executive chef in your ABAP kitchen, just looking for new ideas? Either way, you will find classic and new recipes in ABAP Objects and ABAP/4 for...

Writing a Web Dynpro ABAP application may be a job, but it can also be a craft-and in this book, you have the tool you need to become a master. Start with the basics, jump right into advanced concepts, or flip straight to workbooks so...

Serious Noticing: Selected Essays, 1997-2019 von Wood, James

Sie wollen endlich den Umstieg auf ABAP Objects schaffen und Ihre ABAP-Fähigkeiten auf den neuesten Stand bringen? Dann ist dieses Buch Ihr perfekter Einstieg in die objektorientierte Programmierung! Nach einer kurzen Einführung in die...