Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The word "blurb", meaning a short description of a book, film, or other product written for promotional purposes, was coined by Burgess in 1906, in attributing the dust jacket of his book, Are You a Bromide?, to a "Miss Belinda Blurb" depicted "in the act of blurbing". His definition of "blurb" is "a flamboyant advertisement; an inspired ...
A blurb on a book can be any combination of quotes from the work, the author, the publisher, reviews or fans, a summary of the plot, a biography of the author or simply claims about the importance of the work. In the 1980s, Spy ran a regular feature called "Logrolling in Our Time" which exposed writers who wrote blurbs for one another's books. [3]
Brandon Sanderson, in his Mistborn and Stormlight Archive series uses various epigraphs including letters between various gods, so-called "death rattles" and quotes from the villain's diary. Edward Gorey 's The Unstrung Harp is not only about a fictitious novel, but its author thinks of a fictional verse for its epigraph.
Created Date: 8/30/2012 4:52:52 PM
Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; Upload file; Special pages
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations is the Oxford University Press's large quotation dictionary. It lists short quotations that are common in English language and culture. The 8th edition, with 20,000 quotations over 1126 pages, was published in print and online versions in 2014. [1]
%PDF-1.7 %âãÏÓ 7 0 obj > endobj 32 0 obj >/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[]/Index[7 42]/Info 6 0 R/Length 121/Prev 368816/Root 8 0 R/Size 49/Type/XRef/W[1 3 1]>>stream ...