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E-ISBN 978-0-231-53740-7
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Davidson, Jenny.
Reading style : a life in sentences / Jenny Davidson.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-231-16858-8 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-231-53740-7 (electronic)
1. Readability (Literary style) 2. Style, Literary. 3. Grammar, Comparative and general—Sentences. 4. Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax 5. Criticism, Textual. 6. Literature—Study and teaching. I. Title.
PN204.D38 2014
809—dc23
2013030998
A Columbia University Press E-book.
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