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Building Great Sentences

By Brooks Landon

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Building Great Sentences

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Based on the bestselling series from The Great Courses, Building Great Sentences celebrates the sheer joy of language-and will forever change the way you read and write. Great writing begins with the sentence. Whether it's two words ("Jesus wept.") or William Faulkner's 1,287-word sentence in Absalom! Absalom!, sentences have the power to captivate, entertain, motivate, educate, and, most importantly, delight. Yet, the sentence-oriented approach to writing is too often overlooked in favor of bland economy. Building Great Sentences teaches you to write better sentences by luxuriating in the pleasures of language. Award-winning Professor Brooks Landon draws on examples from masters of long, elegant sentences-including Don DeLillo, Virginia Woolf, Joan Didion, and Samuel Johnson-to reveal the mechanics of how language works on thoughts and emotions, providing the tools to write powerful, more effective sentences.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
288
Release Date:
2013-06-25
Publication Date:
2013-06-25
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0452298601
ISBN13:
9780452298606
Weight:
245 g
Height:
133 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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