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Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
4.27 average rating, · 130.1k 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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J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
Humphrey Carpenter
4.06 average rating, · 16.8k ratings
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Exercises in Style
Raymond Queneau
4.05 average rating, · 13.3k ratings
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Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Italo Calvino
4.17 average rating, · 11k ratings
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La loca de la casa
Rosa Montero
4.02 average rating, · 5.6k ratings
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Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey Into Story
John Yorke
4.18 average rating, · 4.6k 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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The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
Stephen Fry
4.06 average rating, · 4k ratings
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Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise
Katherine Rundell
4.11 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
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An Experiment in Criticism
C.S. Lewis
4.20 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
Umberto Eco
4.16 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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On Becoming a Novelist
John Gardner
4.10 average rating, · 3.2k ratings
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Lectures on Literature
Vladimir Nabokov
4.32 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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Clases de literatura: Berkeley, 1980
Julio Cortázar
4.46 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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Dæmon Voices
Philip Pullman
4.12 average rating, · 2.7k 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 Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
Phillip Lopate
4.20 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle
Aristotle
4.00 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
Nicholas A. Basbanes
4.04 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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This Craft of Verse
Jorge Luis Borges
4.31 average rating, · 2k ratings
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Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting Dynamic Characters and Effective Viewpoints
Nancy Kress
4.05 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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