Humor in writing – effects, techniques, examples
Does humor in writing help book sales? Points to consider while incorporating humor in fiction writing. What books to read to hone your humor writing skills? Introducing humor in your…
Does humor in writing help book sales? Points to consider while incorporating humor in fiction writing. What books to read to hone your humor writing skills? Introducing humor in your…
Author: John Steinbeck, a 20th-century American writer This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by the Nobel Laureate author describes a crucial period in the history of the United States of America –…
Author: Pearl S. Buck, a 20th-century American writer The masterpiece of the American Nobel Laureate author who introduced the Far East to the West, this rags-to-riches story of a Chinese…
Author: Edgar Allan Poe, a 19th-century American writer, poet, and editor. A mid-nineteenth-century American classic, supernatural horror pervades this narrative. Roderick Usher, the scion of the renowned House of Usher,…
Author: Anne Frank, a German-Dutch diarist. A true and historically important account by a teenage victim of the Holocaust, Anne's diary published over the years in several edited versions, continues…
Author: J.D. Salinger, a 20th-century American author. This twentieth-century coming-of-age novel has been criticized for its irreverent language, but its empathetic and accurate use of that language by the teenaged…
Author: Mark Twain, a 19th-century American writer, humorist, and publisher. The protagonist of this delightful and insightful adventure is the orphan Tom, a mischievous but intelligent boy living with his…
Author: Mary Shelley, a 19th-century English novelist Rarely has a novel captured the popular imagination and inspired innumerable adaptations and references across time and space as Shelley’s Frankenstein. Written in…
Author: Jane Austen, an English novelist of the late eighteenth century. Published anonymously in early nineteenth century England, Austen’s second novel is different from contemporary didactic and moralizing writing, describing…
Author: John Milton, a 17th-century English poet and intellectual. Written in unrhymed verse in the seventeenth century, this epic describes the fall of Man from God’s grace through the machinations…