Nabokov's favourite word is mauve, the literary quirks and oddities of our most-loved authors, Ben Blatt
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Nabokov's favourite word is mauve, the literary quirks and oddities of our most-loved authors, Ben Blatt
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eng
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non fiction
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Nabokov's favourite word is mauve
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Ben Blatt
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the literary quirks and oddities of our most-loved authors
Summary
Journalist and statistician Ben Blatt asks the questions that have intrigued curious book lovers for generations: Does each writer have their own stylistic footprint? Do men and women write differently? What are the crutch words our best-loved authors fall back on? 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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adult
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