Vocabula Bound 1: Outbursts, Insights, Explanations, and Oddities [Paperback]

The Writers of The Vocabula Review (Author), Robert Hartwell Fiske (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 30, 2008

Vocabula Bound 1: Outbursts, Insights, Explanations, and Oddities, twenty-five of the best essays and twenty-six of the best poems published in The Vocabula Review.

Certainly one of the best collections of essays about the English language available today.

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About the Author

Robert Hartwell Fiske is the editor and publisher of The Vocabula Review, since 1999 an online journal about the English language, and certainly the principal web destination for anyone interested in words and language.

Product Details

• Paperback: 298 pages
• Publisher: Vocabula Books (June 30, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0977436853
• ISBN-13: 978-0977436859
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,277,157 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Robert Hartwell Fiske is the editor and publisher of The Vocabula Review (www.vocabula.com), since 1999 an online journal about the English language, and certainly the principal web destination for anyone interested in words and language.

He is the author of:

* Silence, Language, & Society: A guide to style and meaning, grace and compassion
* The Dimwit's Dictionary
* The Dictionary of Concise Writing
* The Dictionary of Disagreeable English
* 101 Wordy Phrases
* 101 Foolish Phrases
* 101 Elegant Paragraphs
* Speaking of Silence (or Agnes and Otto)
* The Best Words

He is the editor of:

* Vocabula Bound 1: Outbursts, Insights, Explanations, and Oddities
* Vocabula Bound 2: Our Wresting, Writhing Tongue
* And, with Laura Cherry, Poem, Revised: 54 Poems, Revisions, Discussions

He is the owner of Vocabula Communications Company (www.vocabula.com/VCC.asp), which consists of The Vocabula Review and Vocabula Books.