epub |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Gerke, Jeff [Gerke, Jeff]

TONE The last aspect of establishing the normal of your story is to set the tone. Occasionally I read unpublished manuscripts that mislead the reader as to the book’s tone. ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2010-12-22 | Author:Milan Kundera [Kundera, Milan]

C.S.: By that broad a definition, we could even call The Decameron a novel! All of its stories are connected by the same theme of love and told by the ...

epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-05-31 | Author:James Wood [Wood, James]

80 In fact, the ubiquitous flat character of the English novel, from Mr. Collins to Charles Ryder’s father, tells us something deep about the dialectic of British reticence and sociability, ...

epub |eng | 2011-05-11 | Author:Michelle Finlay

US usage: “My father told me his life story. ‘Son, I want you to remember me’, he began.” The tendency in the UK is to place punctuation marks within quotation ...

epub |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:Jennifer Steil [Steil, Jennifer]

AT THE END OF NOVEMBER, two men from the South African embassy visit me. These men actually made an appointment, only I have completely forgotten. When they arrive, I am ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Marc Weingarten [Weingarten, Marc]

The book is a diary of everything Tregaskis saw or heard, written in a clipped, straightforward style. Any speculative attempts at taking the emotional temperature of the situation are limited ...

epub |eng | 2010-04-13 | Author:David Lipsky [Lipsky, David]

Oh—I adored that show. And I remember being really upset during the Vietnam War, because they would keep intruding on that show, to give updates on the war. And the ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2001-05-01 | Author:Martha Gellhorn [Gellhorn, Martha]

There the diary finishes; now I am on my own, with a few fairly useless East African notes and my memory. The prospect is daunting. As near as I can ...

epub |eng | 2013-06-12 | Author:Norman Lewis [Lewis, Norman]

Chapter Thirteen NOTHING COULD HAVE been more remote than the sound of battle in Havana. Secretly, too, nothing could have caused more joy to the small percentage of Cubans who ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-31 | Author:Houshang Asadi

Chapter 15 Woof, Woof. I am a Spy My little dog is yapping. Licking my feet. He wants me to take him out. His name is Sonny. He is my ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-08 | Author:Girard, Dara [Girard, Dara]

Typos in the correspondence. Promises to make you a “star.” Everyone likes to get his ego stroked, scam artists know this. Doesn’t submit your work. Sends you form rejection letters. ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-02 | Author:Dani Shapiro [Shapiro, Dani]

CHANNEL Agnes de Mille, who revolutionized musical theater by choreographing the dream ballet sequence in the 1943 Broadway hit Oklahoma!, confessed to her lifelong friend Martha Graham that she found ...

mobi |eng | 2011-03-29 | Author:Stephen Baker & Greg McLaughlin

Film and television drama The dramatic contrast in imagery between ‘strife-torn maelstrom’ and ‘blissful, rural idyll’, typifies two of the most prevalent, visual representations of Ireland in the 20th Century ...

epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Rob Gifford [Rob Gifford]

Broadband changes your life. If you’re going to bring life-changing inventions to this part of the country, it seems that some kind of basic agricultural mechanization might be a better ...

epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Constance Hale [Hale, Constance]

Linguists parse sentences in their own special way, using their own concept of grammar. They imagine the sentence as a “constituent structure tree,” and they graph it so that it ...