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Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read (Great Courses, 1)

by Landon, Brooks

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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.

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  • Plume Brand
  • Jun 25, 2013 Pub Date:
  • 9780452298606 ISBN-13:
  • 0452298601 ISBN-10:
  • English Language
  • 7.98 in * 0.61 in * 5.3 in Dimensions:
  • 1 lb Weight: