title: The Nature of Fiction
author:  Gregory Currie 
description: This important book provides a theory about the nature of fiction, and about the relation between the author, the reader, and the fictional text. The approach is philosophical: that is to say, the author offers an account of key concepts such as fictional truth, fictional characters and fiction itself.
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  ####  [Also by Sarah Dunant](../Text/part0002_split_000.html#toc-idp17792)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ##### Novels
  
  
  
  
  
  SACRED HEARTS
  
  
  
  
  
  IN THE COMPANY OF THE COURTESAN
  
  
  
  
  
  THE BIRTH OF VENUS
  
  
  
  
  
  MAPPING THE EDGE
  
  
  
  
  
  TRANSGRESSIONS
  
  
  
  
  
  UNDER MY SKIN
  
  
  
  
  
  FLATLANDS
  
  
  
  
  
  BIRTH MARKS
  
  
  
  
  
  SNOW STORMS IN A HOT CLIMATE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ##### Non-fiction
  
  
  
  
  
  THE WAR OF THE WORDS: THE POLITICAL CORRECTNESS DEBATE ( _editor_ )
  
  
  
  
  
  THE AGE OF ANXIETY ( _co-editor with Roy Porter_ )
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ##### COPYRIGHT
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Published by Hachette Digital
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  978-0-7481-2872-3  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _All characters and events in this publication, other than those clearly in
  the public domain, are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living
  or dead, is purely coincidental._
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © Sarah Dunant 2013
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The moral right of the author has been asserted.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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