![]() ![]() One exercise, “Am I Saramago,” (alluding to the Portuguese novelist who uses no punctuation), asks readers to write a 150-350–word narrative with no commas, periods, or paragraph breaks. Each chapter contains examples from literature: an excerpt from Austen’s Mansfield Park demonstrates the author’s “vivid and versatile” syntax a “glaringly bright scene” from Dickens’ Little Dorrit shows the power of a “single word…repeated like a hammer blow.” In addition, Le Guin has created short exercises “to clarify and intensify” awareness and hone technique. In 10 chapters, the author considers basic writing topics, such as sound, rhythm, grammar, syntax, parts of speech (especially verbs, adverbs, and adjectives), and point of view. Prolific writer Le Guin ( The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One: Where on Earth, 2012, etc.)-author of more than 60 books of fiction, poetry, drama, and translation and winner of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, among other awards-brings her experience as a writing workshop leader to this revision of her 1998 publication. ![]() Practical writing advice from an acclaimed storyteller. ![]()
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![]() ![]() We went from machines that couldn't beat a serious Go player, to defeating a world champion. We went from near-unusable speech and image recognition, to near-human accuracy. ![]() Machine learning has made remarkable progress in recent years. ![]() Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. Written by Keras creator and Google AI researcher François Chollet, this book builds your understanding through intuitive explanations and practical examples. Deep Learning with Python introduces the field of deep learning using the Python language and the powerful Keras library. ![]() ![]() ![]() As in Les Misérables, the disharmony associated with social tumult, apocalyptic vision, and oxymoronic tensions provides an essential component of the later Hugo's Romantic sublime. By situating these historical narratives in relation to each other, to all of Hugo's previous fiction, and to a number of poetic and critical works published in exile and in the initial years of the Third Republic, it illuminates the final structural and thematic shifts from a poetics of harmony to one of transcendence. This study places the last three novels of Victor Hugo's maturity - Les Travailleurs de la mer (1866), L'Homme qui rit (1869), and Quatrevingt-Treize (1874) - within the context of his artistic development after the success of Les Misérables (1862). Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law. ![]() ![]() Harriet sets out to put her invincibility to good use by jumping off cliffs and fighting people-eating Ogrecats right up until her own curse comes back to cause even more magical mishaps. But tricky Harriet realizes that in order for that curse to come true, she must live until her twelfth birthday, which makes her temporarily invincible. With a little twist on Sleeping Beauty, Princess Harriet Hamsterbone discovers that she was cursed as a baby to fall into a deep sleep on her twelfth birthday. ![]() Genre: Middle Grade, Graphic Novel, Fairy Tales Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers, a Penguin Random House Company, 2015 Hamster Princess: Harriet the Invincible by Ursula Vernon This week we’re going to be reviewing both books in the series. ![]() If you follow us on Instagram – and you should! □ – you may have noticed our excitement about Of Mice and Men, the second in the Hamster Princess series. ![]() |