Torn Wings and Faux Pas: A Flashbook of Style, a Beastly Guide Through the Writer's Labyrinth
- ISBN-10
- 0679442421
- ISBN-13
- 9780679442424
- Category
- English language
- Pages
- 204
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Author
- Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Description
A guide to style, grammar, and vocabulary, filled with picaresque characters and fantastic animals along with fictitious, fearlessly pompous authorities
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