Nabokov's favorite word is mauve : what the numbers reveal about the classics, bestsellers, and our...
Nabokov's favorite word is mauve : what the numbers reveal about the classics, bestsellers, and our...
Nabokov's favorite word is mauve : what the numbers reveal about the classics, bestsellers, and our own writing / Ben Blatt.
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Publisher
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017.
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G 2017/2641
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Language
English
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Physical content
271 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Use sparingly -- He wrote, she wrote -- Searching for fingerprints -- Write by example -- Guiltier pleasures -- U.K. vs. U.S. -- Clichés, repeats, and favorites -- How to judge a book by its cover -- Beginnings and endings -- Epilogue.
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Publisher
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2017.
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Summary
In Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve, statistician and journalist Ben Blatt brings big data to the literary canon, exploring the wealth of fun findings that remain hidden in the works of the world's greatest writers. He assembles a database of thousands of books and hundreds of millions of words, and starts asking the questions that have intrigued c...
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Nabokov's favorite word is mauve : what the numbers reveal about the classics, bestsellers, and our own writing / Ben Blatt.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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G 2017/2641
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74VKVa38xbZM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVa38xbZM
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ISBN
9781501105388 hardcover
1501105388 hardcover
DDC
002.021
MMS ID
991024101913802626
