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The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomedby Karen Elizabeth GordonISBN 0679418601 (0-679-41860-1)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed'Book summary:Karen Elizabeth Gordon is no ordinary grammarian, and her works (including The New Well-Tempered Sentence, Torn Wings and Faux Pas, and The Disheveled Dictionary)--are no ordinary books of grammar. A special edition of the 1984 classic, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire is populated by a wickedly decadent cast of gargoyles, mastodons, murderous debutantes, and, yes, vampires (both transitive and otherwise), who cavort and consort in order to illustrate basic principles of grammar. The sentences are intoxicating--"How he loved to dangle his participles, brush his forelock off his forehead with his foreleg, and gaze into the aqueous depths"--but the rules and their explanations are as sound as any you might find in Strunk and White. Outlining the building blocks of the English language, from parts of speech to phrases and clauses, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire goes on to exorcise such grammatical demons as passive voice, fragments, comma splices, and run-on sentences. At last, a handbook of grammar you will actually want to read. In the words of Gordon's preface, "Howling, exploding, crackling, flickering with new life-forms, and drunk on fresh blood (some of mine is certainly missing), this deluxe edition reminds us on every page that words, too, have hoofs and wings to transport us far and deep." [via]
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The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexiconby Karen Elizabeth GordonISBN 0618381961 (0-618-38196-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon'Book summary:Pretty little novelty vocabulary books often provide unimaginative, unpoetic definitions for strange and beautiful words that one could never imagine actually using in a sentence. Karen Elizabeth Gordon's Disheveled Dictionary is quite the opposite. Gordon offers up usable if somewhat underused words (such as "amplitude," "crepuscular," "maudlin," and "recidivistic"), many of which we're not quite sure we know the exact meaning, illustrating them in the wildly creative fashion that she has perfected in her grammar texts (The Deluxe Transitive Vampire, The New Well-Tempered Sentence, and Torn Wings and Faux Pas). "The more ample one's lexicon," writes Gordon (as her alter ego "Yolanta") in the book's preface, "the more supple one's thought, the more daring, charged, engaged." "Jonquil Mapp," another of Gordon's stable of crafty characters, adds that "What's most exciting ... is not where a word has been but where it's going, what you will make of it."
This book is best described by example, so here is Gordon's illustrative use of that excessive pride or self-confidence we call "hubris": " Adipose Rex, a modern drama with ancient Greek overtones, is about a king whose hubris vis-a-vis his heart and his tragic proclivity for tiropitas, pastitsio, and baklava bring on his comeuppance coronary." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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- The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon: ISBN 0395689902 (0-395-68990-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon: ISBN 0756782104 (0-7567-8210-4)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co - The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon: ISBN 0618381961 (0-618-38196-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
- The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon: ISBN 0395689902 (0-395-68990-2)
The Garden of Eternal Swallows: A Natural Foods Cookbookby Karen Elizabeth GordonISBN 0394739485 (0-394-73948-5)
Softcover, Shambhala
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Intimate Apparel: A Dictionary of the Senses from Absinthe to Zipperby Karen Elizabeth GordonISBN 0812912225 (0-8129-1222-5)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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My Dear Mother: Stormy, Boastful, and Tender Letters by Distinguished Sons-From Dostoevsky to Elvisby Karen Elizabeth Gordon , Holly JohnsonISBN 156512121X (1-56512-121-X)
Hardcover, Algonquin Books
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The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomedby Karen Elizabeth GordonISBN 0618382011 (0-618-38201-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed'Book summary:For over a decade THE WELL TEMPERED SENTENCE has provided instruction and pleasure to the wariest student and the most punctilious scholar alike. Now Karen Elizabeth Gordon has revised and enlarged her classic handbook with fuller explanations of the rules of punctuation, additional whimsical graphics, and further character development and drama -- all the while redeeming punctuation from the perils of boredom. For anyone who has despaired of opening a punctuation handbook (but whose sentences despair without one), THE NEW WELL TEMPERED SENTENCE will teach you clearly and simply where to place a comma and how to use an apostrophe. And as you master the elusive slashes, dots, and dashes that give expression to our most perplexing thoughts, you will find yourself in the grip of a bizarre and beguiling comedy of manners. Long-time fans will delight in the further intrigues of cover girl Loona, the duke and duchess, and the mysterious Rosie and Nimrod. The New Well-Tempered Sentence is sure to entertain while teaching you everything you want to know about punctuation. Never before has punctuation been so much fun![via]More editions of The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed:
- The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed: ISBN 0395628830 (0-395-62883-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed: ISBN 0618382011 (0-618-38201-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
- The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed: ISBN 0395628830 (0-395-62883-0)
Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness : A Dictionarrativeby Karen Elizabeth GordonISBN 0375401989 (0-375-40198-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Paris Out of Handby Karen Elizabeth Gordon , Nick Bantock, Barbara HodgsonISBN 0811809692 (0-8118-0969-2)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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Ravenous Museby Karen Elizabeth GordonISBN 0517199491 (0-517-19949-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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The Ravenous Muse : A Table of Dark and Comic Contents, a Bacchanal of Booksby Karen Elizabeth GordonISBN 067941861X (0-679-41861-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Ravenous Muse: A Table of Dark and Comic Contents, a Bacchanal of Booksby Karen Elizabeth GordonISBN 0788167928 (0-7881-6792-8)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Talesby Karen Elizabeth GordonISBN 1564780929 (1-56478-092-9)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales'Book summary:Best known for her Gothic language handbooks, 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, fabricationsuch 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. [via]
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Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Proseby Karen Elizabeth GordonISBN 0767903099 (0-7679-0309-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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For illustration, Hale hails Walt Whitman and Roger Angell, and rails upon Alexander Haig and the Gump's catalogue. She hauls in Joan Didion to make a case for writing in the first person, Mark Twain to promote the killing of adjectives, C.S. Lewis to advocate showing rather than telling, and Loudon Wainwright III to lament the abuse of the word like. But Hale has no problem making her own points. "Euphemisms," she says, "are for wimps." She dismisses a particularly heinous example of scholarly prose as "a bunch of big words thrown into an Osterizer." Even other grammarians don't escape her derision: "Get a grip," Hale says. "Hopefully as a sentence adverb is here to stay." But what distinguishes Sin and Syntax most is its enthusiasm for prose that takes risks. "Even if you have to check with a lawyer," says Hale, "isn't a kick-ass piece of writing worth the effort?" --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Torn Wings and Faux Pasby Karen Elizabeth GordonISBN 0517284774 (0-517-28477-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Torn Wings and Faux Pas : A Flashbook of Style, a Beastly Guide Through the Writer's Labyrinthby Karen Elizabeth GordonISBN 0679442421 (0-679-44242-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomedby Karen Elizabeth GordonISBN 0727820737 (0-7278-2073-7)
Hardcover, Severn House Publishers, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed'Book summary:Karen Elizabeth Gordon is no ordinary grammarian, and her works (including The New Well-Tempered Sentence, Torn Wings and Faux Pas, and The Disheveled Dictionary)--are no ordinary books of grammar. A special edition of the 1984 classic, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire is populated by a wickedly decadent cast of gargoyles, mastodons, murderous debutantes, and, yes, vampires (both transitive and otherwise), who cavort and consort in order to illustrate basic principles of grammar. The sentences are intoxicating--"How he loved to dangle his participles, brush his forelock off his forehead with his foreleg, and gaze into the aqueous depths"--but the rules and their explanations are as sound as any you might find in Strunk and White. Outlining the building blocks of the English language, from parts of speech to phrases and clauses, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire goes on to exorcise such grammatical demons as passive voice, fragments, comma splices, and run-on sentences. At last, a handbook of grammar you will actually want to read. In the words of Gordon's preface, "Howling, exploding, crackling, flickering with new life-forms, and drunk on fresh blood (some of mine is certainly missing), this deluxe edition reminds us on every page that words, too, have hoofs and wings to transport us far and deep." [via]
More editions of The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed:
- The Transitive Vampire : A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed: ISBN 072782080X (0-7278-2080-X)
Hardcover, Severn House Publishers, Limited - The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed: ISBN 0812911016 (0-8129-1101-6)
Hardcover, Times Books - The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed: ISBN 0727820737 (0-7278-2073-7)
Hardcover, Severn House Publishers, Limited
- The Transitive Vampire : A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed: ISBN 072782080X (0-7278-2080-X)
The Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomedby Karen Elizabeth GordonISBN 0899191703 (0-89919-170-3)
Hardcover, Ticknor & Fields
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