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Understanding fiction by Warren, Robert Penn; Brooks, Cleanth is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Understanding fiction about?
Section I : The intentions of fiction -- The attack on the fort / Francis Parkman -- Portrait of Henry Hastings / Anthony Cooper, First Earl of Shaftesbury -- R.M.S. Titanic / Hanson Baldwin -- The man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling -- Old Red / Caroline Gordon -- The birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Section II : How plot reveals -- The furnished room / O. Henry -- The necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- A piece of news / Eudora Welty -- Mediators to the goatherd / James Hinton -- War / Luigi Pirandello -- The face / Louis Moreau -- Section III : What character reveals -- The fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- Tennessee's partner / Bret Harte -- The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte -- The poor relation's story / Charles Dickens -- The lament / Anton Chekhov -- The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- Two little soldiers / Guy de Maupassant -- Love and James K. Polk / Griffith Beems -- Section IV : What theme reveals -- Christ in Flanders / Honoré de Balzac -- The death of the Dauphin / Alphonse Daudet -- Filboid Studge, the story of a mouse that helped / Saki -- The killers / Ernest Hemingway -- Head
Who reads Understanding fiction?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Warren, Robert Penn; Brooks, Cleanth
- Publisher
- F.S. Crofts & Co.
- Published
- 1943
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Rating
- 4.06 / 5 (30 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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