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Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
4.27 average rating, · 130.1k ratings
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The Elements of Style
William Strunk Jr.
4.18 average rating, · 87.9k ratings
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
George Saunders
4.53 average rating, · 26.8k ratings
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The Jolly Postman or Other People's Letters
Janet Ahlberg
4.50 average rating, · 12.8k ratings
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Why I Write
George Orwell
4.01 average rating, · 16k ratings
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Exercises in Style
Raymond Queneau
4.05 average rating, · 13.3k ratings
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Politics and the English Language
George Orwell
4.30 average rating, · 9.1k ratings
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A Writer's Diary
Virginia Woolf
4.17 average rating, · 6.7k ratings
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Becoming a Writer
Dorothea Brande
4.00 average rating, · 6.4k ratings
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Tolkien On Fairy-stories
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.32 average rating, · 5k ratings
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Essays of E.B. White
E.B. White
4.31 average rating, · 4.2k ratings
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On Writing
Ernest Hemingway
4.02 average rating, · 4.9k ratings
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Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
Flannery O'Connor
4.27 average rating, · 4k ratings
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One Writer's Beginnings
Eudora Welty
4.06 average rating, · 4.2k ratings
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Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings
Shirley Jackson
4.05 average rating, · 4.1k ratings
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Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
Virginia Woolf
4.20 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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Clases de literatura: Berkeley, 1980
Julio Cortázar
4.46 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes
C.S. Lewis
4.09 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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The Important Book
Margaret Wise Brown
4.08 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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One Man's Meat
E.B. White
4.27 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle
Aristotle
4.00 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters
John Steinbeck
4.16 average rating, · 2k ratings
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The Common Reader
Virginia Woolf
4.11 average rating, · 2k ratings
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How Should One Read a Book?
Virginia Woolf
4.03 average rating, · 2k ratings
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