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introduction	Title of the book	An Introduction to fiction
	Author's name	Robert Stanton
	Publisher	Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc.
	City	New York, Chicago, Saan Francisco, Toronto, London.
	Year of publication	1965
Summary of content	Propotional summary weight of the important points of each section (chapter/unit)	Chapter 1 surveys generally the purpose and nature of serious fiction. Chapter 2 defines the basic elements of fiction, such as plot, character, theme, and setting. Chapter 3 deals specifically with methods and problems of the short stories. Chapter 4 related with those novel. Chapter 5 defines various philosophical, technical, and subject-matter chategories such as romanticism, tealism, the novel of manners, allegory, and existentialism. Chapter 6 describes the process of writing an analitical or evaluative critical paper.
	Correlation between the overall structure and content (book structure and organization)	Correlation between the overall structure and content is good. All the chapter is related. All of the data in that is in the content is right, and there are no errors in the writing pages.
Analysis of the text	Author's writing style	The author's writing style is descriptive, Because he describe all the materials in the book. Actually the writing style is good. He use formal language, but its simple, so we can understend it well.
	Author's point of view	The author's point of view is first person
	Author's major hypothesis	There are some reason why a student need a teacher or textbook to "introduce" him to serious fiction. First reason is that they expose him to it, to enjoy or understand good writing, one must read it. A second reason is that the teacher or textbook can call the reader's attention to the author's purposes and techniques. And third reason is that the teacher or textbook can correct misconceptions that interfere with the reader's pleasure and understanding.
Evaluation of the text	A brief summary of all the weakness and strengths	The strengths of this book is eassy to understandby the readers. It use some example to make the readers more understand what the author write. And the weakness of this book is the author gives some example that may be unfamiliar by the some readers. So it can be confuse, and we cannot accept the information.
	Usefulness to the audience	I think this book is very useful. It was a good book to read and it give us many knowledge.
	Reason why you like/dislike the book	I like this book. And the reason why I like this book is because I am the literary student in Semarang State of University. As the literary student, I need to know a lot about fiction. Because of that, I want to explore things about fiction. In reading fiction, we have to understand the story, and also the parts of the story.