Francine Prose

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Books by Francine Prose

• Reading Like a Writer (2006): mentions 61 books

Quotes from Francine Prose's books, and about them

• Reading Like a Writer on The Dead: “Among the most well known cadenced sentences are those that end James Joyce's "The Dead."”
• Reading Like a Writer on First Love: “Alternately, we can read Samuel Beckett's "First Love," in which we learn almost no physical details about the narrator.”
• Reading Like a Writer on On Being Ill: “Finally, let's look at one of the most complex and virtuosic sentences in all of literature, which appears at the opening of Virginia Woolf's "On Being Ill."”
• Reading Like a Writer on Drinking Coffee Elsewhere: “If a character's going to light a cigarette, or almost light a cigarette, it should mean something, as it does in this scene from ZZ Packer's Drinking Coffee Elsewhere.”
• Reading Like a Writer on The Elements of Style: “For help with this specialized etiquette, I'd recommend a grammar manual such as Strunk and White's The Elements of Style.”
• Reading Like a Writer on Wise Blood: “The opening pages of Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood shift perspective every few sentences.”
• Reading Like a Writer on Angels: “The initial paragraphs of another first novel, Denis Johnson's Angels, also convey a series of subtle shifts.”
• Reading Like a Writer on Franny and Zooey: “In Salinger's Franny and Zooey, Bessie Glass's bathrobe not only describes her personality and her entire way of life.”
• Reading Like a Writer on Lolita: “Nor are we entirely persuaded that, in Nabokov's Lolita, Humbert Humbert is transcribing verbatim the speech of Miss Pratt.”
• Reading Like a Writer on Pamela: “Such works are actually closer to the epistolary form in which a number of the very earliest novels, such as Samuel Richardson's Pamela, were written.”

Authors Francine Prose's books mention

• Leo Tolstoy (4): Reading Like a Writer mentions Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilych, Anna Karenina, The Kreutzer Sonata
• Gabriel García Márquez (3): Reading Like a Writer mentions The Autumn of the Patriarch, Love in the Time of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Charlotte Brontë (2): Reading Like a Writer mentions Jane Eyre, The Professor
• Flannery O'Connor (2): Reading Like a Writer mentions Wise Blood, Everything That Rises Must Converge
• Gustave Flaubert (2): Reading Like a Writer mentions Sentimental Education, Madame Bovary
• Heinrich von Kleist (2): Reading Like a Writer mentions The Earthquake in Chile, The Marquise of O
• Herman Melville (2): Reading Like a Writer mentions Bartleby, the Scrivener, Moby-Dick
• Stendhal (2): Reading Like a Writer mentions The Red and the Black, On Love
• Anton Chekhov (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions In the Ravine
• Astrid Lindgren (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions Pippi Longstocking
• Charles Dickens (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions Bleak House
• Christina Stead (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions The Man Who Loved Children
• Denis Johnson (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions Angels
• Diane Johnson (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions Le Divorce
• E. E. Cummings (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions The Enormous Room
• Elizabeth Bowen (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions The House in Paris
• Emily Bronte (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions Wuthering Heights
• Ernest Hemingway (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions A Moveable Feast
• Fyodor Dostoevsky (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions Crime and Punishment
• Henry James (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions The Turn of the Screw
• Honore de Balzac (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions Cousin Bette
• Isaac Babel (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions My First Goose
• J. D. Salinger (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions Franny and Zooey
• Jack Kerouac (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions Big Sur
• James Joyce (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions The Dead
• Jane Austen (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions Sense and Sensibility
• Jay McInerney (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions Bright Lights, Big City
• John Cheever (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions Goodbye, My Brother
• John le Carré (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions A Perfect Spy
• Jonathan Franzen (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions The Corrections
• Juan Rulfo (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions Pedro Paramo
• Junot Díaz (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions Edison, New Jersey
• Katherine Mansfield (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions The Daughters of the Late Colonel
• Margaret Mitchell (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions Gone with the Wind
• Nadezhda Mandelstam (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions Hope Against Hope
• Nikolai Gogol (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions Dead Souls
• Paul Bowles (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions A Distant Episode
• Philip Roth (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions American Pastoral
• Richard Yates (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions Revolutionary Road
• Samuel Beckett (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions First Love
• Samuel Richardson (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions Pamela
• Scott Spencer (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions A Ship Made of Paper
• Stuart Dybek (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions We Didn't
• Tim O'Brien (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions The Things They Carried
• Virginia Woolf (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions On Being Ill
• Vladimir Nabokov (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions Lolita
• William Gaddis (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions The Recognitions
• William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions The Elements of Style
• William Trevor (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions Access to the Children
• ZZ Packer (1): Reading Like a Writer mentions Drinking Coffee Elsewhere