Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve. What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing

"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 curious word nerds and book lovers for generations: What are our favorite authors' favorite words? Do men and women write differently? Are bestsellers getting dumber over time? Which bestselling writer uses the most clichaes? What makes a great opening sentence? How can we judge a book by its cover? And which writerly advice is worth following or ignoring?"--Amazon.com.

Издательство

Simon and Schuster

Год

2017

Страниц

288

Язык

английский

ISBN

9781501105388