Semicolon The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark

Name: Semicolon The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
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ISBN: 9780062853059

ISBN-10: 0062853058

ISBN-13: 9780062853059

Edition: 2019

Authors: Cecelia Watson

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A page-turning, existential romp through the life and times of the world's most polarizing punctuation mark The semicolon. Stephen King, Hemingway, Vonnegut, and Orwell detest it. Herman Melville, Henry James, and Rebecca Solnit love it. But why? When is it effective? Have we been misusing it? Should we even care? In Semicolon, Cecelia Watson charts the rise and fall of this infamous punctuation mark, which for years was the trendiest one in the world of letters. But in the nineteenth century, as grammar books became all the rage, the rules of how we use language became both stricter and more confusing, with the semicolon a prime victim. Taking us on a breezy journey through a range of…

Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 7/30/2019
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.12" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English