Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780452298606)

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.

Author: Brooks Landon
ISBN-10: 0452298601
ISBN-13: 9780452298606
Publisher: Plume Books
Language: English
Published: 06/25/2013
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.36w x 0.61d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2013
Shelf Awareness 06/28/2013