Nabokov's favourite word is mauve : the literary quirks and oddities of our most-loved authors
Blatt, Ben2017
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Nabokov's Favourite Word is Mauve is a playful look at what the numbers have to say about our favourite authors and their classic books. Journalist and statistician Ben Blatt asks the questions that have intrigued curious book lovers for generations. Do writers have their own stylistic footprint? Do men and women write differently? What are the crutch words our best-loved authors fall back on? Which writer is the most cliched? Spanning from Shakespeare and Jane Austen to fan fiction, JK Rowling and Stephen King, Blatt reveals the quirks and oddities of the world's greatest writers. This is a lighthearted, humorous book that uses numbers to inform our understanding of words to enlighten, to clarify, and, above all, to entertain.
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Author:
Blatt, Ben, author
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Imprint:
London Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., 2017.©2017
Collation:
271 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
ISBN:
9781471152825 (hardback)
Dewey class:
809
Language:
English
BRN:
321694