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  • Grandiloquent Words

    A Pictoric Lexicon of Ostrobogulous Locutions

    by Jason Travis Ott ...
    This recondite caboodle of glosses panegyrizes the boggles of our palaver.*Words confirm and deny, guarantee and deceive, elucidate and obfuscate.The more words you know, the better you can express yourself and the more you can do in life. The founder of Grandiloquent Word of the Day accordingly presents a voluptuary of verbiage encompassing rare and obscure terms that confound or delight, ... Read more

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  • On Being Ill (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Modernist Essay on Illness, Consciousness, the Body, and the Literature of Embodiment

    by Virginia Woolf, Cora Tallowmere ...
    In On Being Ill, Virginia Woolf transforms bodily suffering into a subject of philosophical and aesthetic inquiry. First published in 1926, the essay argues that illness—so central to human experience—has been strangely neglected by literature, which prefers love, battle, and ambition to fever, pain, and convalescence. Woolf's prose is characteristically fluid, associative, and luminous, moving ... Read more

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  • Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage

    Edited by Jeremy Butterfield ...
    Why literally shouldn't be taken literally. Why Americans think home in on something is a mistake and Brits think hone in is. Is it OK to spell OK okay? What's wrong with hence why? Was Alanis Morrisette ever ironic? Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage is the world-famous guide to English usage, loved and used by writers, editors, and anyone who values correct English since it first ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • These Possible Lives

    by Fleur Jaeggy ...
    Translated by Minna Proctor ...
    Brief in the way a razor’s slice is brief, remarkable essays by a peerless stylistNew Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggy’s strange and mesmerizing essays about the writers Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, and Marcel Schwob. A renowned stylist of hyper-brevity in fiction, Fleur Jaeggy proves herself an even more concise master of the essay form, albeit in a most peculiar and lapidary poetic ... Read more

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  • The Elements of Style

    by William Strunk ...
    The Elements of Style is an American English writing style guide. It is one of the most influential and best-known prescriptive treatments of English grammar and usage in the United States. It originally detailed eight elementary rules of usage, ten elementary principles of composition, and "a few matters of form" as well as a list of commonly misused words and expressions. Updated editions of the ... Read more

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  • Prose & Cons

    The English Language in Just A Minute

    by Gyles Brandreth ...
    As fans of Just a Minute know, the key to the game is knowing your way around the English language: how it works, how it’s evolved, and how words connect, often in surprising ways. When it comes to the English language (and Just a Minute), Gyles Brandreth has seen it all – and now he’s ready to put you through your linguistic paces, to become a Just a Minute expert yourself.In this wildly ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • English Homework For Grown-Ups

    by E. Foley, B. Coates ...
    Series Book 3 - Homework for Grown-ups
    Homework for Grown-ups is a brilliantly informative and entertaining book of old-school knowledge for adults. This chapter is the ultimate refresher course on English grammar and literature. (Do you know your Margarets? You will! Dangling your participles? Not any longer!) Packed with essential facts, figures and theories, Homework for Grown-ups is a practical and wonderfully nostalgic revision ... Read more

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  • The Lost Words

    A Feast of Forgotten Words, Their Origins and Their Meanings

    by Pete May ...
    Philip Howard's legendary 'Lost Words' column has been appearing weekly in The Times for many years, wittily illuminating a raft of the most obscure, esoteric words the English language has to offer. At the same time, his 'Word Watching' puzzles have provided readers with the chance to pit their lexicographical skill against his tongue-in-cheek multiple-choice conundrums. This unique collection, ... Read more

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  • Under the Sunset

    by Bram Stoker, Golden Deer Classics ...
    Far, far away, there is a beautiful Country which no human eye has ever seen in waking hours. Under the Sunset it lies, where the distant horizon bounds the day, and where the clouds, splendid with light and color, give a promise of the glory and beauty that encompass it. Sometimes it is given to us to see it in dreams. This Country is the Land Under the Sunset. This is the story of that Country, ... Read more

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  • Fiske WordPower

    The Most Effective System for Building a Vocabulary That Gets Results Fast

    by Jane Mallison, Margery Mandell, Edward B Fiske ...
    The Exclusive Method You Can Use to Learn—Not Just Memorize—Essential WordsA powerful vocabulary expands your world of opportunity. Building your word power will help you write more effectively, communicate clearly, score higher on standardized tests like the SAT, ACT, or GRE, and be more confident and persuasive in everything you do.Using the exclusive Fiske method, you will not just memorize ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Story of Be

    A Verb's-Eye View of the English Language

    by David Crystal ...
    It's the most simple, unassuming, innocent-looking verb: 'to be'. Yet it is jam-packed with more different meanings, forms, and uses than any other English word. As he reveals be's multiple incarnations, David Crystal takes us to the heart of our flexible and changing language. He tells the intriguing story in 26 chapters, each linked to a particular usage. We meet circumstantial be ('how are you? ... Read more

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  • A Word A Day

    A Romp through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English

    by Anu Garg, Suti Garg ...
    "Anu Garg's many readers await their A Word A Day rations hungrily. Now at last here's a feast for them and other verbivores. Eat up!"-Barbara WallraffSenior Editor at The Atlantic Monthly and author of Word CourtPraise for A Word a Day"AWADies will be familiar with Anu Garg's refreshing approach to words: words are fun and they have fascinating histories. The people who use them have curious ... Read more

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