The Transitive Vampire
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The Deluxe Transitive Vampire
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Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 1993
The Deluxe Transitive Vampire written by Karen Elizabeth Gordon and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This guide to the rules of grammar presents amusing instructional sentences to demonstrate correct usage and is illustrated with old engravings
The Transitive Vampire
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Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 1984
The Transitive Vampire written by Karen Elizabeth Gordon and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Engelsk grammatik categories.
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
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Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2003
The New Well Tempered Sentence written by Karen Elizabeth Gordon and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Education categories.
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
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Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2003
The Disheveled Dictionary written by Karen Elizabeth Gordon and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Education categories.
Uses imaginative examples to illustrate the meaning of words from abrogate, brouhaha, and cachinnate to susurration, truculence, and voluble.
Paris Out Of Hand
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Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release Date : 1996-08
Paris Out Of Hand written by Karen Elizabeth Gordon and has been published by Chronicle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-08 with Humor categories.
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.
Torn Wings And Faux Pas
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Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 1997
Torn Wings And Faux Pas written by Karen Elizabeth Gordon and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with English language categories.
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.
The Red Shoes And Other Tattered Tales
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Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Red Shoes And Other Tattered Tales written by Karen Elizabeth Gordon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Fiction categories.
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.
Sin And Syntax
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Author : Constance Hale
language : en
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Release Date : 2001-12-04
Sin And Syntax written by Constance Hale and has been published by Three Rivers Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-12-04 with Reference categories.
Today’s writers need more spunk than Strunk: whether it's the Great American e-mail, Madison Avenue advertising, or Grammy Award-winning rap lyrics, memorable writing must jump off the page. Copy veteran Constance Hale is on a mission to make creative communication, both the lyrical and the unlawful, an option for everyone. With its crisp, witty tone, Sin and Syntax covers grammar’s ground rules while revealing countless unconventional syntax secrets (such as how to use—Gasp!—interjections or when to pepper your prose with slang) that make for sinfully good writing. Discover how to: *Distinguish between words that are “pearls” and words that are “potatoes” * Avoid “couch potato thinking” and “commitment phobia” when choosing verbs * Use literary devices such as onomatopoeia, alliteration, and metaphor (and understand what you're doing) Everyone needs to know how to write stylish prose—students, professionals, and seasoned writers alike. Whether you’re writing to sell, shock, or just sing, Sin and Syntax is the guide you need to improve your command of the English language.
The Ravenous Muse
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Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 1996
The Ravenous Muse written by Karen Elizabeth Gordon and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Cooking categories.
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.
Out Of The Loud Hound Of Darkness
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Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 1998
Out Of The Loud Hound Of Darkness written by Karen Elizabeth Gordon and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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