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The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton is a masterful meditation on the art and architecture of storytelling, penned by one of America's most astute literary minds. With characteristic elegance and precision, Wharton explores the structural integrity of the novel, the moral dimensions of narrative, and the subtle alchemy of character and style. Drawing from both classical traditions and her own formidable career, she illuminates the inner workings of fiction with a voice that is at once rigorous, refined, and deeply human. More than a manual, this is a work of literary criticism steeped in insight and cultivated sensibility-a rare and enduring testament to fiction's highest aspirations.

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Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was one of the most accomplished and discerning literary figures of the early twentieth century, celebrated for her incisive portrayals of American society and the moral intricacies that underlie human ambition and desire. The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, she authored enduring masterpieces such as The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome, and The House of Mirth, blending psychological acuity with an architect's sense of structure and design. A cosmopolitan intellect shaped by both Old World refinement and New World dynamism, Wharton brought to her criticism the same elegance, authority, and moral clarity that define her fiction. In The Writing of Fiction, she offers not merely instruction, but a distilled philosophy of literature-born of a writer who lived deeply within the form.

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