Building Great Sentences

<p>Based on the bestselling series from The Great Courses, <em>Building Great Sentences</em> celebrates the sheer joy of language&mdash;and will forever change the way you read and write.<br /><br />Great writing begins with the sentence. Whether it's two words ("Jesus wept.") or William Faulkner's 1,287-word sentence in <em>Absalom! Absalom!</em>, sentences have the power to captivate, entertain, motivate, educate, and, most importantly, delight. Yet, the sentence-oriented approach to writing is too often overlooked in favor of bland economy. <em>Building Great Sentences</em> teaches you to write better sentences by luxuriating in the pleasures of language.<br /><br />Award-winning Professor Brooks Landon draws on examples from masters of long, elegant sentences&mdash;including Don DeLillo, Virginia Woolf, Joan Didion, and Samuel Johnson&mdash;to reveal the mechanics of how language works on thoughts and emotions, providing the tools to write powerful, more effective sentences.</p>