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1	Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose more books like this by Constance Hale, Karen Elizabeth Gordon (Foreword by) add to wishlist From the author of WIRED STYLE, this contemporary style guide encourages writers to discover their voice by deconstructing the meaning and power of words, instead of focusing on set rules. Hale tells how to use vivid, succinct word choices to create meaningful prose. see all copies from £6.65! new only from £6.65! \| first editions
2	The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed more books like this by Karen Elizabeth Gordon add to wishlist The most stringent rules of grammar are explicated here by means of an outrageous Gothic plot that involves not only vampires but gargoyles and mastodons. see all copies from £6.14! new only from £9.19! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed more books like this by Karen Elizabeth Gordon add to wishlist The mysteries of colons and semicolons are uncovered in this inventive guide that is populated with a wacky cast of characters that manage to make the rules of punctuation seem simple and fun. see all copies from £4.37! new only from £4.37! \| first editions
4	The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon more books like this by Karen Elizabeth Gordon add to wishlist Gordon's dictionary of odd and wonderful words is populated by an eccentric cast of characters that brings the words to life. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £6.16! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Transitive Vampire more books like this by Karen E. Gordon add to wishlist The most stringent rules of grammar are explicated here by means of an outrageous Gothic plot that involves not only vampires but gargoyles and mastodons. see all copies from £5.29! new only from £7.73! \| first editions
6	Paris Out of Hand: A Wayward Guide more books like this by Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Chronicle Books, Karen Elizabeth add to wishlist From the author of The Transitive Vampire comes an invitation to a strangely illuminated City of Light, Paris out of Hand. This seductively beautiful replica of a 19th-century travel book guides readers through the Paris that is, that might be, and that never was. Over 100 color and b&w illustrations. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £7.38! \| first editions
7	Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative more books like this by Karen Elizabeth Gordon add to wishlist In this witty exploration of words, Gordon once again introduces the world of Gothic eccentricity of her other books. Here, Count Ghastly, the vampire Dodeska Tutulescu, and their pals decode the differences between "masterful" and "masterly" and other frequently confused or misused words. see all copies from £5.85! new only from £8.09! \| first editions
8	The Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doo more books like this by Karen Elizabeth Gordon add to wishlist The mysteries of colons and semicolons are uncovered in this inventive guide that is populated with a wacky cast of characters that manage to make the rules of punctuation seem simple and fun. see all copies from £4.98! new only from £5.18! \| first editions
9	My Dear Mother: Stormy Boastful, and Tender Letters by Distinguished Sons--From Dostoevsky to Elvis more books like this by Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Holly Johnson (Editor) add to wishlist This collection of letters between distinguished sons and mothers offers an intimate and unexpected glimpse into the mind and heart of the artist. Whether it is to ask for socks or solace to sketch scenes of travel or conspire, the letters reveal moments of creativity, struggle and accomplishment. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.07! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales by Karen Elizabeth Gordon add to wishlist These six tales have been "sewn together" into a novel and recall both the fairy tales of Anderson and the Brothers Grimm, and the postmodern metafictions of Queneau, Gass, and Pavic. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £5.61! \| first editions
11	The Ravenous Muse: A Table of Dark and Comic Contents, a Bacchanal of Books more books like this by Karen Elizabeth Gordon add to wishlist A collection of highly amusing, and often disconcerting, quotations about food and drink from writers as diverse as James Joyce, Emily Dickinson, and the Marquis de Sade. see all copies from £6.14! new only from £28.65! \| first editions
12	Gardn Eternal Swalows more books like this by Karen Elizabeth Gordon add to wishlist see all copies from £5.23!
13	The Garden of Eternal Swallows: A Natural Foods Cookbook more books like this by Karen Elizabeth Gordon add to wishlist see all copies from £13.09!
14	The transitive vampire : a handbook of grammar for the innocent, the eager and the doomed more books like this by Karen Elizabeth Gordon add to wishlist see all copies from £5.66! first editions

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