Practice Of Writing - Hardcover

Lodge, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0436204088 ISBN 13: 9780436204081

Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

First published in 1996, this is a collection of entertaining and thought-provoking essays on the relationship between creative writing, the teaching of the same and the task of dramatizing literary works for television and the stage. Sends the reader back to writers' works (including Mr. Lodge's own) with a renewed appreciation of what makes them tick and why (New York Times) These essays, so easy in manner, so well-built and informative, offer a fine blend of creative writing and criticism...The essays on writers who have meant most to him as a novelist, notably Graham Greene (on whom nobody has written better) and Joyce, are brilliant (Sunday Times).

About this title

About the Author

David Lodge (CBE)’s novels include Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work (shortlisted for the Booker) and, most recently, A Man of Parts. He has also written plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism. His works have been translated into more than thirty languages.

He is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Birmingham, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Edition details

• Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0436204088
• ISBN 13: 9780436204081
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 356