Readers will delight at the best scenes ever written. They will find old favorites and savor scenes new to them. With each scene, Barnaby Conrad provides insights as to what the author wishes to accomplish with this passage and the literary devices he or she employs. Any avid reader will enjoy Conrad's ""101 Best Scenes Ever Written,"" but countless fledgling and established writers will benefit enormously by sampling and studying these gems from the masters of the written word.
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A Pleasurable Book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
If not the "101 Best Scenes Ever Written"-still darn close. One of most pleasurable books I have ever read-still re-reading. Also led me to see some of the old movies these scences came from-which I had never seen. Barnaby Conrad is not a great story teller, yet always, an entertaining character worth reading.(and bullfighting afficionado-segundo a nadien) Dave Richards www.charlesspurgeon.net
Playwrights, in particular, will want this survey of what influences transform an ordinary scene to
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
Writers and readers alike will find much to love in 101 BEST SCENES EVER WRITTEN: A ROMP THROUGH LITERATURE FOR WRITERS AND READERS. Here works by Hemingway, Jack London, Steinbeck, Twain and other notables are surveyed with an eye to providing examples of some of the most memorable writing approaches in modern history. Playwrights, in particular, will want this survey of what influences transform an ordinary scene to a great one. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch
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