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Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 0618382011
The basic rules governing the use of periods, semicolons, hyphens, commas, and other punctuation marks are illustrated by original explanations and humorous sample sentences. Reprint.
Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Publisher : Clarion Books
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : English language
ISBN : 0899191703
Collectin of bizarre, but instructional sentences used to help take the pain out of punctuation.
Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Publisher : Crown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Engelsk grammatik
ISBN : UCSC:32106016536804
Playful and practical, this is the style book you can't wait to use, a guide that addresses classic questions of English usage with wit and the blackest of humor. Gordon has taken her enormously successful book of English usage and expanded it to include more rules, fine points, examples, and illustrations. Playful and practical, this style book combines classic questions of usage with wit and the blackest of humor.
Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 0618381961
Uses imaginative examples to illustrate the meaning of words from abrogate, brouhaha, and cachinnate to susurration, truculence, and voluble.
Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1993-08-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780679418603
Playful and practical, this is the style book you can't wait to use, a guide that addresses classic questions of English usage with wit and the blackest of humor. Black-and-white illustrations throughout.
Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1564780929
Best known for her Gothic language handbooks (reissued recently as The New Well-Tempered Sentence and The Deluxe Transitive Vampire), Karen Elizabeth Gordon here turns her extraordinary talents to fiction, and the result is as unconventional as her seductive grammar dramas. The Red Shoes consists of tatters of a half-dozen tales ("The Glass Shoe," "The Gingerbread Variations," "The Little Match Girl," "Don Juan Is a Woman," and the title story, among others) sewn together into a novel by two seamstresses. "Fabric, fabrication--such is the stuff of these lost chronicles come together here," Gordon writes in her introduction. "Swinging their hatboxes, swaying their hips, chapters with torn slips wander in on high heels and blistered feet." Looking back to the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, but also casting sidelong glances at metafictional sugardaddies like Queneau, Nabokov, Cortazar, Gass, and Milorad Pavic, The Red Shoes is a Rabelaisian romp through the language of sensuality.
Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : English language
ISBN : 0679442421
Karen Elizabeth Gordon, in this engaging, Gothic, quick-fix handbook--an ideal complement to The Deluxe Transitive Vampire--playfully instructs her readers about grammar and style as she plunges them into her magical world teeming with a wildly imaginative menagerie of winged and terrestrial creatures. Six eccentric fictional authorities, including sex-changing Natty Ampersand and Medievalist Vargas Scronx, give the book a sense of send-up in addition to its trusty practicality. A farouche faun with cloven hoofs, black rats, sirens and sphinxes, turbaned serpents, dragons, brigands and a butler make their appearance in unforgettable sentences and imaginary landscapes, such as brooding Trajikistan, to beguile the reader through such confusions and corrections as dangling and misplaced modifiers, double negatives, parallel construction, and a voluptuous riot of word abuses and preferable usage. Gordon also tames such confusing grammatical beasts as the elliptical clause, split infinitives, and many more. Rikki Ducornet has drawn more than fifty whimsical illustrations that capture the eccentric spirit of the text. Torn Wings and Faux Pas makes the reader laugh out loud and shiver with pleasure while experiencing style, vocabulary, and the structures of language as a perpetual and fiendish delight.
Author : Doon Arbus
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811229500
A lush, disorienting novel, The Caretaker takes no prisoners as it explores the perils of devotion and the potentially lethal charisma of things Following the death of a renowned and eccentric collector—the author of Stuff, a seminal philosophical work on the art of accumulation—the fate of the privately endowed museum he cherished falls to a peripatetic stranger who had been his fervent admirer. In his new role as caretaker of The Society for the Preservation of the Legacy of Dr. Charles Morgan, this restive man, in service to an absent master, at last finds his calling. The peculiar institution over which he presides is dedicated to the annihilation of hierarchy: peerless antiquities commune happily with the ignored, the discarded, the undervalued and the valueless. What transpires as the caretaker assumes dominion over this reliquary of voiceless objects and over its visitors is told in a manner at once obsessive and matter-of-fact, and in language both cocooning and expansive. A wry and haunting tale, The Caretaker, like the interplanetary crystal that is one of the museum’s treasures, is rare, glistening, and of a compacted inwardness. Kafka or Shirley Jackson may come to mind, and The Caretaker may conjure up various genres—parables, ghost stories, locked-room mysteries—but Doon Arbus draws her phosphorescent water from no other writer’s well.
Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon,Barbara Hodgson,Nick Bantock
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996-08
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0811809692
An illustrated guide to a surrealist Paris. At the Cinema l'Ange des Sables, they show only movies shot in the desert, while in the Cafe Dada you insert food into an automatic dispenser and get money. By the author of The Red Shoes.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780940112131
For ages 9-12. Presents creative writing exercises that focus on the use of adjectives and nouns. Features scratch and sniff pages, electronic sounds, comic book spreads, and Greek chorus characters.
Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Cooking
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019836076
From the author of The Deluxe Transitive Vampire comes this delightful collection of writings about food, drink, and the art of eating. Drawing on excerpts from more than 50 writers--Barthes, Balzac, Mandelstam, McPhee, Marquez, and Joyce among them--Gordon gives us a funny, surprising, and wonderfully macabre book.
Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015045694315
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Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307957337
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
Author : Brian Dillon
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781681375250
A captivating meditation on the power of the sentence by the author of Essayism, a 2018 New Yorker book of the year. In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon, whom John Banville has called “a literary flâneur in the tradition of Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin,” has written a sequel of sorts to Essayism, turning his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence—from Shakespeare to James Baldwin, John Ruskin to Joan Didion—this new book explores style, voice, and language, along with the subjectivity of reading. Both an exercise in practical criticism and a set of experiments or challenges, Suppose a Sentence is a polemical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature.
Author : Carolyn D. Rude,Angela Eaton
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0133937704
This market-leading text, which reflects recent changes in technology, workplace practices and the global marketplace, progresses from concepts and basic copyediting to comprehensive editing, management and production issues. The addition of Angela Eaton of Texas Tech University brings a fresh tone to her updates of content and pedagogy while retaining the authoritative voice of Carolyn Rude. Some of the text's changes include an update ot Chapter 6, "Electronic Editing," and examples about editing Web sites are found throughout the text to support the increased role of online resources in every aspect of communication. 0133937704 / 9780133937701 Technical Editing Plus MyWritingLab -- Access Card Package Package consists of: 0133933296 / 9780133933291 MyWritingLab Generic -- Glue in Access Card 013393330X / 9780133933307 MyWritingLab Generic -- Inside Star Sticker 0205786715 / 9780205786718 Technical Editing
