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.
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 Well-tempered Sentence
Author: Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Publisher: Clarion Books
ISBN: 9780899191706
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
Collectin of bizarre, but instructional sentences used to help take the pain out of punctuation.
Publisher: Clarion Books
ISBN: 9780899191706
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
Collectin of bizarre, but instructional sentences used to help take the pain out of punctuation.
The Transitive Vampire
Author: Karen Elizbeth Gordon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
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.
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.
Josephine Nobisso's Show, Don't Tell!
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 0940112132
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0940112132
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
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.
The Caretaker
Author: Doon Arbus
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811229505
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
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.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811229505
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
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.
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.
OECD Style Guide Third Edition
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264243437
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
This third edition of the OECD Style Guide is designed to help draft and organise published material so that readers can easily navigate, understand and access OECD analysis, statistics and information.
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264243437
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
This third edition of the OECD Style Guide is designed to help draft and organise published material so that readers can easily navigate, understand and access OECD analysis, statistics and information.
The Sense of an Ending
Author: Julian Barnes
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307957330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307957330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
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.