Brooks Landon
Based on the bestselling series from The Great Courses, ,Building Great Sentences, celebrates the sheer joy of languageâ€”and will forever change the way you read and write. , Great writing begins with the sentence. Whether itâ€™s two words (â€œJesus wept.â€) or William Faulknerâ€™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 sentencesâ€”including Don DeLillo, Virginia Woolf, Joan Didion, and Samuel Johnsonâ€”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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Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read