Literature Atlas

How Stories Are Told
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Nonfiction Prose

Prose written to argue, reflect or record rather than to narrate an invented or dramatized story: the essay, the manifesto, the philosophical treatise and the memoir. Belongs here: every essay collection, literary manifesto and nonfiction prose work in this atlas's roster. Does not belong here: a work of narrative fiction that happens to be autobiographical in tone, which stays classed by its own fictional form instead.

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