Karen Elizabeth Gordon

This guide to the rules of grammar presents amusing instructional sentences to demonstrate correct usage and is illustrated with old engravings

The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed

The Deluxe Transitive Vampire

The basic rules governing the use of periods, semicolons, hyphens, commas, and other punctuation marks are illustrated by humorous sentences

A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed

The New Well-tempered Sentence

Uses imaginative examples to illustrate the meaning of words from abrogate, brouhaha, and cachinnate to susurration, truculence, and voluble

A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon

The Disheveled Dictionary

Nick Bantock

Barbara Hodgson

An illustrated guide to a surrealist Paris. At the Cinema l'Ange des Sables, they show only movies shot in the desert, while in the Cafe Dada you insert food into an automatic dispenser and get money. By the author of The Red Shoes.

A Wayward Guide

Paris Out of Hand

A guide to style, grammar, and vocabulary, filled with picaresque characters and fantastic animals along with fictitious, fearlessly pompous authorities

A Flashbook of Style, a Beastly Guide Through the Writer's Labyrinth

Torn Wings and Faux Pas

Playful and practical, this is the style book you can't wait to use, a guide that addresses classic questions of English usage with wit and the blackest of humor. Gordon has taken her enormously successful book of English usage and expanded it to include more rules, fine points, examples, and illustrations. Playful and practical, this style book combines classic questions of usage with wit and the blackest of humor.

A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed

The Transitive Vampire

A humorous and imaginative odyssey through the mysteries of the English language and usage that focuses on the meanings of words that look alike or have similar but not necessarily interchangeable meanings

A Dictionarrative

Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness

Drawing on excerpts from the richly diverse writings of Balzac, Joyce, McPhee, and Barthes, among others, this collection of essays shares meditations and observations on food, drink, and the art of eating. By the author of The Deluxe Transitive Vampire. 30,000 first printing. Tour.

A Table of Dark and Comic Contents, a Bacchanal of Books

The Ravenous Muse

Uses imaginative examples to illustrate the meaning of words from abrogate, brouhaha, and cachinnate to susurration, truculence, and voluble.

The tatters of a half dozen tales sewn together,into a novel by two seamstresses, this novel harks,solidly to the fairly tales of Anderson and Grimm.,It also casts sidelong glances at metafictional,sugardaddies like Queneau, Nabokov, Cortazar, Gass,and Milorad Pavic, whose Balkan ambience Gordon,shares. A Rabelaisian romp through the language of,sensuality.

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

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