Nabokov's Favourite Word is Mauve
Author(s): Ben Blatt
Nabokov's Favourite Word is Mauve is a playful look at what the numbers have to say about our favourite authors and their classic books. 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? Which writer is the most cliched? 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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'What fun this is! Ben Blatt's charming book applies numerical know-how to questions of literary style, teasing out insights about cliffhangers, adverbs' -- Jordan Ellenberg, author of How Not to Be Wrong 'Ben Blatt's delightful book gives us an original big data perspective on great writers' work. Its humour, insights and statistical displays are fascinating to behold, even as it helps us develop our own writing' -- Carl N. Morris, Professor Emeritus of Statistics, Harvard University
General Fields
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- : Simon & Schuster, Limited
- : Simon & Schuster, Limited
- : January 2017
- : 216mm X 135mm
- : United Kingdom
- : April 2017
- : books
Special Fields
- : 288
- : 1704
- : Hardback
- : Ben Blatt
