Author: Karen Elizbeth Gordon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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The Transitive Vampire
Author: Karen Elizbeth Gordon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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The Deluxe Transitive Vampire
Author: Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0679418601
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0679418601
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
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.
Paris Out of Hand
Author: Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811809696
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811809696
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
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.
The New Well-tempered Sentence
Author: Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618382019
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618382019
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
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.
The Disheveled Dictionary
Author: Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618381968
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Uses imaginative examples to illustrate the meaning of words from abrogate, brouhaha, and cachinnate to susurration, truculence, and voluble.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618381968
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Uses imaginative examples to illustrate the meaning of words from abrogate, brouhaha, and cachinnate to susurration, truculence, and voluble.
Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness
Author: Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
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Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales
Author: Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
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.
The Ravenous Muse
Author: Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
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.
Torn Wings and Faux Pas
Author: Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 9780679442424
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 9780679442424
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Writing Software Documentation: A Task-Oriented Approach, 2/E
Author: Barker
Publisher: Pearson Education India
ISBN: 9788177587692
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher: Pearson Education India
ISBN: 9788177587692
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description