The Writing of Fiction: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Writing of Fiction, credited to Edith Wharton, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers Edith Wharton, a successful author of fiction herself, gives us some in-depth analysis of the writing of short stories and novels. Then she offers practical suggestions on how to get started writing fiction, with liberal references to Arthur Quiller-Couch. She appears to prefer a list of scenes over an outline. The overall outline of a novel is painted in broad strokes, almost like a step-by-step fill in the blanks recipe. if someone were to call it a How-To book it wouldn't be far off. The last chapter, on Proust seemed a little strange to me as it doesn't tie back much to the previous commandments. (Summary by William Jones)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Writing of Fiction
• Author credits: Edith Wharton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 6
• Listed recording duration: 3:20:30

Catalogue topics

• literary criticism
• writing
• authorship
• fiction writing
• novelist

Track guide

1. 01 - In General — 33:08
2. 02 - Telling a Short Story — 26:13
3. 03 - Constructing a Novel, Part 1 — 43:07
4. 04 - Constructing a Novel, Part 2 — 31:43
5. 05 - Character and Situation in the Novel — 28:59
6. 06 - Marcel Proust — 37:20

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