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Good Prose
Author | : Tracy Kidder,Richard Todd |
Publsiher | : Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2013-08-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780812982152 |
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS Good Prose is an inspiring book about writing—about the creation of good prose—and the record of a warm and productive literary friendship. The story begins in 1973, in the offices of The Atlantic Monthly, in Boston, where a young freelance writer named Tracy Kidder came looking for an assignment. Richard Todd was the editor who encouraged him. From that article grew a lifelong association. Before long, Kidder’s The Soul of a New Machine, the first book the two worked on together, had won the Pulitzer Prize. It was a heady moment, but for Kidder and Todd it was only the beginning of an education in the art of nonfiction. Good Prose explores three major nonfiction forms: narratives, essays, and memoirs. Kidder and Todd draw candidly, sometimes comically, on their own experience—their mistakes as well as accomplishments—to demonstrate the pragmatic ways in which creative problems get solved. They also turn to the works of a wide range of writers, novelists as well as nonfiction writers, for models and instruction. They talk about narrative strategies (and about how to find a story, sometimes in surprising places), about the ethical challenges of nonfiction, and about the realities of making a living as a writer. They offer some tart and emphatic opinions on the current state of language. And they take a clear stand against playing loose with the facts. Their advice is always grounded in the practical world of writing and publishing. Good Prose—like Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style—is a succinct, authoritative, and entertaining arbiter of standards in contemporary writing, offering guidance for the professional writer and the beginner alike. This wise and useful book is the perfect companion for anyone who loves to read good books and longs to write one. Praise for Good Prose “Smart, lucid, and entertaining.”—The Boston Globe “You are in such good company—congenial, ironic, a bit old-school—that you’re happy to follow [Kidder and Todd] where they lead you.”—The Wall Street Journal “[A] well-structured, to-the-point, genuinely useful, and fun-to-read guide to writing narrative nonfiction, essays, and memoir . . . Crisp, informative, and mind-expanding.”—Booklist “A gem . . . The finer points of creative nonfiction are molded into an inspiring read that will affect the would-be writer as much as Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird or Stephen King’s On Writing. . . . This is a must read for nonfiction writers.”—Library Journal “As approachable and applicable as any writing manual available.”—Associated Press
Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose
Author | : Tobias Reinhardt,Michael Lapidge,J. N. Adams |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 2005-11-24 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0197263321 |
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These twenty essays examine continuity and change in the language of Latin prose, from its emergence to the twelfth century AD. Issues debated include traditional distinctions between primitive archaic and sophisticated classical Latin, and between superior classical and inferior Silver Latin. A broad range of Latin authors are covered, including Caesar and Cicero, Bede and William of Malmesbury. An extensive introduction traces the volume's recurring themes - the use of poetic diction in prose, archaism, sentence structure, and bilingualism. The diversity of approaches makes this an essential handbook for all those interested in Latin language and literature.
The Prose Works
Author | : Walter Scott |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1834 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : CHI:12567030 |
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A System of Rhetoric
Author | : Charles William Bardeen |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 828 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : UCAL:$B307909 |
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The Writer
Author | : William Henry Hills,Robert Luce |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Authorship |
ISBN | : CHI:35383681 |
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The Athenaeum
Author | : James Silk Buckingham,John Sterling,Frederick Denison Maurice,Henry Stebbing,Charles Wentworth Dilke,Thomas Kibble Hervey,William Hepworth Dixon,Norman Maccoll,Vernon Horace Rendall,John Middleton Murry |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 900 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105005640755 |
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A Manual of Latin Prose Composition for the Use of Schools and Colleges
Author | : Henry Musgrave Wilkins |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1866 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044102875515 |
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The Athenaeum
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : UCAL:C3470744 |
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