title: Strategies for Writers: A Reader
author: Sheena Gillespie
description: Strategies for Writers is a rhetorically arranged reader which is offered at a net price that is less than two thirds the price of comparable readers.
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  ### PREFACE  
  
  
  _**N**_ ovelists who
  
  
  have laid the scenes of their stories almost invariably in one
  
  
  certain country or district, or amongst one certain class of
  
  
  people, or who have dealt with one special topic or interest, are
  
  
  apt to be called monotonous by a public which merely reads to kill
  
  
  time or is always craving for new sensations in its literature. But
  
  
  to another and more serious class of reader this very fidelity to
  
  
  scene and steadfastness of outlook is one of the principal
  
  
  incentives to take up each fresh work of such writers, for it is
  
  
  safe to assume that they are writing about what they really know
  
  
  and understand and their work may be expected to deepen and develop
  
  
  with each succeeding book.
  
  
  Amongst such writers Grazia Deledda takes high rank.
  
  
  One of the foremost women novelists of Italy, if not the very
  
  
  first, she has been writing for some five and twenty years, and
  
  
  though almost always utiliz