AnyBook4Less.com
Find the Best Price on the Web
Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Developed by Fintix
Home  |  Store List  |  FAQ  |  Contact Us  |  
 
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money

Torn Wings and Faux Pas : A Flashbook of Style, a Beastly Guide Through the Writer's Labyrinth

Please fill out form in order to compare prices
Title: Torn Wings and Faux Pas : A Flashbook of Style, a Beastly Guide Through the Writer's Labyrinth
by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
ISBN: 0-679-44242-1
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Pub. Date: 28 October, 1997
Format: Hardcover
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $23.00
Your Country
Currency
Delivery
Include Used Books
Are you a club member of: Barnes and Noble
Books A Million Chapters.Indigo.ca

Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

Customer Reviews

Rating: 4
Summary: A book of English language usage
Comment: Welcome once again to the world of Karen Elizabeth Gordon. Here, lycanthropes, vampires, and cartographers explore places like Bosoxia or party in the Schloss. Provided the vocabulary used for the examples does not discourage you from reading, this book is an entertaining way to explore the many commonly confused words of the English language.

As with other books by Gordon, this is a handy reference to have, but it is not a quick reference. Then entries are alphabetically listed, but you would have to search to find what you need. Unlike other of her books, this one does not have the detailed illustrations. This is a little disappointing, but it is still a helpful book.

The "Deluxe Transitive Vampire" and the "New Well-Tempered Sentence" are mentioned in the text in a few places. Having all three on your desk would make writing a more productive and witty endeavor. Referring to this book will help improve your writing. I would recommend it if the examples don't scare you off.

Rating: 5
Summary: a tapestry of syntax
Comment: To those who know, good grammar is sensual; to Karen Elizabeth Gordon, who stitches a Bayeux tapestry of medieval creatures and other amiable schoolgirl romanticisms into her symposia on various grammatical topics, good grammar is not only sensual, it is also downright gothic. I understand the marriage; it must seem to lovers of English that well-constructed sentences are as difficult to extract from the linguistic detritus of today's world as Excalibur was from the stone of another. Perhaps the kindest thing one can say about a book is that one would like to have breakfast with the author; and midway through, I wondered what it would be like to meet Ms. Gordon over crepes and coffee and Le Figaro, and ask her to render an opinion on the American practice of turning nouns into verbs. The only problem with beautiful and idiosyncratic books on grammar is that they are only read by people who are least in need of such books, and forever remain unread by those most in ne! ! ed of them.

Similar Books:

Title: The Deluxe Transitive Vampire : A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed
by KAREN ELIZABETH GORDON
ISBN: 0679418601
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Pub. Date: 10 August, 1993
List Price(USD): $23.00
Title: The New Well Tempered Sentence : A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed
by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
ISBN: 0395628830
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date: 10 July, 1993
List Price(USD): $16.00
Title: The Disheveled Dictionary : A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon
by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
ISBN: 0395689902
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date: 26 August, 1997
List Price(USD): $15.00
Title: Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness : A Dictionarrative
by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
ISBN: 0375401989
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Pub. Date: 27 October, 1998
List Price(USD): $23.00
Title: Sin and Syntax : How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose
by Constance Hale
ISBN: 0767903099
Publisher: Broadway
Pub. Date: 20 March, 2001
List Price(USD): $12.95

Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!

Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments

Powered by Apache