“elizabeth gordon”

Now available for the first time in trade paperback, this classic work is sure to appeal to a whole new audience of language lovers--and loathers: anyone who has ever fumbled for the proper word or punctuation mark.At long last, The New Well-Tempered Sentence rescues punctuation from the perils of b... More

With her signature cache of illustrations and flamboyantly gothic examples, Gordon, "who has achieved cult status with her whimsical references, defines an array of daffy, delicious words" ("Library Journal").With her signature cache of illustrations and flamboyantly gothic examples, Karen Elizabeth... More

Here now is an enlarged version of the only handbook of grammar you will ever want to read. With this special edition, Karen Gordon gives the reader more illustrations and even more examples of confusing appositives, the many uses of gerunds, the complicated matter of agreements. The Deluxe Transiti... More

1924. Contents: The Woman's Crusade; Mobilization and Organization; The Fight for a Clear Brain; The World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union; Legislative Achievements; Patriotism and War Prohibition; The Eighteenth Amendment; Allegiance to the Constitution; The Nineteenth Amendment; Our Golden Ju... More

The Red Shoes consists of tatters of a half-dozen tales (The Glass Shoe, The Gingerbread Variations, The Little Match Girl, Don Juan Is a Woman, and the title story, among others), sewn together into a novel by two seamstresses. "Fabric, fabrication - such is the stuff of these lost chronicles come ... More