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literary craft

Books about literary craft for readers of all ages.

Glencoe Writers Choice

Ages 14–18writingcreativity

The Story and its writer--Second Edition

Ann Charters, Margaret Atwood, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Антон Павлович Чехов

Ages 14–18storytellingliterary craft

The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe [67 stories, 50 poems, 5 essays]

Edgar Allan Poe

Ages 12–18mysterygothic atmosphere

Poetry, Tales and Selected Essays [74 stories, 62 poems, 5 essays]

Edgar Allan Poe

Ages 12–18mysteryimagination

Perrine's literature, Structure, sound and sense--Eighth edition

Thomas R. Arp, Greg Johnson, Albert Camus, Антон Павлович Чехов, Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Richard Connell

Ages 13–18human naturecultural identity

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Vol. III - Poems and Essays [42 poems, 14 essays]

Edgar Allan Poe, John H. Ingram

Ages 14–18loss and griefmystery

40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition

Beverly Lawn, Joanne Diaz, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin, Антон Павлович Чехов, James Joyce, William Faulkner, Gabriel García Márquez, Margaret Atwood, Alice Walker, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Ages 14–18human naturemorality