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Edith Marlowe

Edith Marlowe

Edith Marlowe writes short fiction and book criticism, reviewing new fiction with a focus on narrative craft. Her stories appear in European literary journals.

Trieste, Italy •
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Fiction

Unreliable Narrators in Adventure Fiction

From Tarzan to Frankenstein, classic adventure fiction opens by confessing its sources are bad. Why the frame narrative persuades readers, what it actually delivers, and why the same device now runs half the internet...

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