Building Great Sentences

Based on the bestselling series from The Great Courses <i>Building Great Sentences</i> celebrates the sheer joy of language--and will forever change the way you read and write. <p/>Great writing begins with the sentence. Whether it's two words (Jesus wept.) or William Faulkner's 1287-word sentence in <i>Absalom! Absalom!</i> 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. <i>Building Great Sentences</i> teaches you to write better sentences by luxuriating in the pleasures of language. <p/>Award-winning Professor Brooks Landon draws on examples from masters of long elegant sentences--including Don DeLillo Virginia Woolf Joan Didion and Samuel Johnson--to reveal the mechanics of how language works on thoughts and emotions providing the tools to write powerful more effective sentences.