"The Fiction Writer's Toolkit:
A Guide to Writing Novels and Getting Published" (2001) (Writer's Collection)
Неплохая книга для желающих попробовать себя в писательском деле, ясно и просто написанная. Некоторые советы по композиции произведения подойдут и тем, кто готовится к письменной части международных экзаменов.
"Bob Mayer's "The Fiction Writer's Toolkit" is probably one of the best novel writing books I've read. Other books I've read have tried to focus too heavily on the technical aspects of writing and not so much on the steps and concepts. What makes this book so easy to read is that everything is broken down into individual "tools" that, when read in order, will walk you through the entire novel writing process from beginning to end. [...]
I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn the process behind writing a novel or wanting to improve their current skills".
The Catcher in the Rye is a novel by J. D. Salinger. First published in the United States in 1951, the novel has been a frequently challenged book in its home country for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and teenage angst.
Lord of the Flies is an allegorical novel by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding. It discusses how culture created by man fails, using as an example a group of British school-boys stuck on a deserted island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results. Its stances on the already controversial subjects of human nature and individual welfare versus the common good earned it position 70 on the American Library Association's list of the 100 most frequently challenged Books of 1990–2000.[1] The novel was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present
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