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.
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.
The Transitive Vampire
Author: Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Publisher: Crown
ISBN:
Category : Engelsk grammatik
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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. 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.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN:
Category : Engelsk grammatik
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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. 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.
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 Anglo-American Encyclopedia and Dictionary: Dictionary department (A-Z)
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
The International Encyclopaedic Dictionary ...
Author:
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Category : Encyclopedias
Languages : en
Pages : 1578
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Category : Encyclopedias
Languages : en
Pages : 1578
Book Description
The Novel: An Alternative History
Author: Steven Moore
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1441133364
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 705
Book Description
Encyclopedic in scope and heroically audacious, The Novel: An Alternative History is the first attempt in over a century to tell the complete story of our most popular literary form. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the novel did not originate in 18th-century England, nor even with Don Quixote, but is coeval with civilization itself. After a pugnacious introduction, in which Moore defends innovative, demanding novelists against their conservative critics, the book relaxes into a world tour of the pre-modern novel, beginning in ancient Egypt and ending in 16th-century China, with many exotic ports-of-call: Greek romances; Roman satires; medieval Sanskrit novels narrated by parrots; Byzantine erotic thrillers; 5000-page Arabian adventure novels; Icelandic sagas; delicate Persian novels in verse; Japanese war stories; even Mayan graphic novels. Throughout, Moore celebrates the innovators in fiction, tracing a continuum between these pre-modern experimentalists and their postmodern progeny. Irreverent, iconoclastic, informative, entertaining-The Novel: An Alternative History is a landmark in literary criticism that will encourage readers to rethink the novel.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1441133364
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 705
Book Description
Encyclopedic in scope and heroically audacious, The Novel: An Alternative History is the first attempt in over a century to tell the complete story of our most popular literary form. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the novel did not originate in 18th-century England, nor even with Don Quixote, but is coeval with civilization itself. After a pugnacious introduction, in which Moore defends innovative, demanding novelists against their conservative critics, the book relaxes into a world tour of the pre-modern novel, beginning in ancient Egypt and ending in 16th-century China, with many exotic ports-of-call: Greek romances; Roman satires; medieval Sanskrit novels narrated by parrots; Byzantine erotic thrillers; 5000-page Arabian adventure novels; Icelandic sagas; delicate Persian novels in verse; Japanese war stories; even Mayan graphic novels. Throughout, Moore celebrates the innovators in fiction, tracing a continuum between these pre-modern experimentalists and their postmodern progeny. Irreverent, iconoclastic, informative, entertaining-The Novel: An Alternative History is a landmark in literary criticism that will encourage readers to rethink the novel.
Intimate Apparel
Author: Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 9780812912227
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
A compendium of words and their definitions and histories begins with a general list and moves on to a section titled "Closet Drama" in which words--including bodice, boots, frock, gloves, and petticoats--are humorously examined
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 9780812912227
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
A compendium of words and their definitions and histories begins with a general list and moves on to a section titled "Closet Drama" in which words--including bodice, boots, frock, gloves, and petticoats--are humorously examined
Chinese-English Pocket Dictionary
Author: D. H. Davis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Disheveled Maidens
Author: Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Front Desk (Front Desk #1) (Scholastic Gold)
Author: Kelly Yang
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338157809
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Inside Out and Back Again meets Millicent Min, Girl Genius in this timely, hopeful middle-grade novel with a contemporary Chinese twist. Winner of the Asian / Pacific American Award for Children's Literature!* "Many readers will recognize themselves or their neighbors in these pages." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewMia Tang has a lot of secrets.Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Motel and tends to its guests.Number 2: Her parents hide immigrants. And if the mean motel owner, Mr. Yao, finds out they've been letting them stay in the empty rooms for free, the Tangs will be doomed.Number 3: She wants to be a writer. But how can she when her mom thinks she should stick to math because English is not her first language?It will take all of Mia's courage, kindness, and hard work to get through this year. Will she be able to hold on to her job, help the immigrants and guests, escape Mr. Yao, and go for her dreams?Front Desk joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338157809
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Inside Out and Back Again meets Millicent Min, Girl Genius in this timely, hopeful middle-grade novel with a contemporary Chinese twist. Winner of the Asian / Pacific American Award for Children's Literature!* "Many readers will recognize themselves or their neighbors in these pages." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewMia Tang has a lot of secrets.Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Motel and tends to its guests.Number 2: Her parents hide immigrants. And if the mean motel owner, Mr. Yao, finds out they've been letting them stay in the empty rooms for free, the Tangs will be doomed.Number 3: She wants to be a writer. But how can she when her mom thinks she should stick to math because English is not her first language?It will take all of Mia's courage, kindness, and hard work to get through this year. Will she be able to hold on to her job, help the immigrants and guests, escape Mr. Yao, and go for her dreams?Front Desk joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!