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Geraldine Woods

25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way

25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way

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The book 25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way is a must-read for literature lovers and writers who want to understand the art of creating memorable sentences. It parses the words of writers and speakers like Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, Neil Armstrong, Jack Kerouac, and Yoda, revealing the underlying craft that goes into their creation.

Format: Hardback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 18 September 2020
Publisher: WW Norton & Co


Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, Neil Armstrong, Jack Kerouac, and Yoda are just a few of the writers and speakers whose words are parsed in this entertaining romp through sentences culled from poems, essays, speeches, songs, fiction, and film. In chapters titled for distinctive features, such as "U-turn" and "impossibility," master teacher Geraldine Woods deftly reveals the underlying craft that goes into the creation of a memorable sentence. Literature lovers will be delighted to discover new authors and revisit favourite passages from a fresh perspective. And writers who want to stretch their skills by following the prompts in each chapter may well find themselves feeling as Henry James did when he wrote, "I have many irons on the fire, and am bursting with writableness."

25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way is a must-read book for any resistor of grammar-bound, sentence-diagramming analysis who wants to understand the art that lifts a sentence from good to great.

Weight: 628g
Dimension: 165 x 242 x 33 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781324004851

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