Mary Norris Boeken

Mary Norris staat bekend om haar nauwgezette verkenning van taal en de literaire wereld, met name door haar langdurige samenwerking met The New Yorker. Haar schrijven duikt in de complexiteit van woorden, hun gebruik en hun culturele impact met een scherp oog voor detail en een diepe waardering voor linguïstische nuances. Norris benadert haar onderwerpen met zowel wetenschappelijke precisie als een boeiende, toegankelijke stijl die lezers uitnodigt om de schoonheid en kracht van taal te ontdekken. Haar werk is een bewijs van de blijvende fascinatie voor hoe we communiceren en de verhalen die woorden kunnen vertellen.

Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen

Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
289bladzijden
11 uur lezen
4,4(3)Tarief
The Comma Queen returns with a buoyant book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea. In her New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils and punctuation in The New Yorker�s celebrated copy department. In Greek to Me, she delivers another wise and funny paean to the art of self-expression, this time filtered through her greatest passion: all things Greek. Greek to Me is a charming account of Norris�s lifelong love affair with words and her solo adventures in the land of olive trees and ouzo. Along the way, Norris explains how the alphabet originated in Greece, makes the case for Athena as a feminist icon, goes searching for the fabled Baths of Aphrodite, and reveals the surprising ways Greek helped form English. Filled with Norris�s memorable encounters with Greek words, Greek gods, Greek wine�and more than a few Greek men�Greek to Me is the Comma Queen�s fresh take on Greece and the exotic yet strangely familiar language that so deeply influences our own.
Between You & Me
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8 uur lezen
3,7(2979)Tarief
From a thirty-year veteran of The New Yorker comes the most irreverent and helpful book on language since Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Greek to me
240bladzijden
9 uur lezen
3,6(1756)Tarief
The Comma Queen returns with a buoyant book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea.In her New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils and punctuation in The New Yorker’s celebrated copy department. In Greek to Me, she delivers another wise and funny paean to the art of self-expression, this time filtered through her greatest passion: all things Greek.Greek to Me is a charming account of Norris’s lifelong love affair with words and her solo adventures in the land of olive trees and ouzo. Along the way, Norris explains how the alphabet originated in Greece, makes the case for Athena as a feminist icon, goes searching for the fabled Baths of Aphrodite, and reveals the surprising ways Greek helped form English. Filled with Norris’s memorable encounters with Greek words, Greek gods, Greek wine—and more than a few Greek men—Greek to Me is the Comma Queen’s fresh take on Greece and the exotic yet strangely familiar language that so deeply influences our own.

Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen

Between You & Me

Greek to me