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Invisible Ink: Envy, Jealousy, and the Creative Torments of Great Writers

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Invisible Ink: Envy, Jealousy, and the Creative Torments of Great Writers
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Novelist and writing teacher Javier Peña has studied the lives of hundreds of great writers and tells little-known stories: funny, sad, happy, shameful, and ugly. Here you'll find Leo Tolstoy and Vladimir Nabokov, Franz Kafka and Isaac Asimov, Margaret Atwood and José Saramago, Susan Sontag and Charles Dickens—and many others.

You'll see your favorite literary figures in a new light, learning about their secrets, passions, hopes, and failures. Biographical facts are intertwined with the author's personal experience: he combines his exploration of the literary process with his own memoirs, balancing on the edge between a popular science essay and a candid, heart-warming memoir.

Javier Peña teaches us to find solace in literature even in the most difficult times: he proves that the happy moments of reading make life worth living, and that fictional stories possess immense power and genuine beauty.
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