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Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve: And Other Experiments in Literature (The literary quirks and oddities of our most-loved authors) by Blatt, Ben is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
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<b>Data meets literature in this “enlightening” (<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>), “brilliant” (<i>The Boston Globe</i>), “Nate Silver-esque” (<i>O, The Oprah Magazine</i>) look at what the numbers have to say about our favorite authors and their masterpieces.</b><br><br>There’s a famous piece of writing advice—offered by Ernest Hemingway, Stephen King, and myriad writers in between—not to use -ly adverbs like “quickly” or “angrily.” It sounds like solid advice, but can we actually test it? If we
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Blatt, Ben
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501105388
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Poetry, Mathematics
- Rating
- 3.85 / 5 (474 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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