Unlike standard biographies, this one reads like a prose version of a superbly rendered documentary, in the style of Ken Burns.
It is a prose capable of manifold marvels--marvels of exposition, marvels of lyrical description, marvels of evocative portraiture, marvels of wicked humor and sly wit.
These historic events form the background to this short, arresting historical novel, written almost as a prose poem, which recounts the Dome's construction from the viewpoint of one of the Caliph's advisers, who is of Jewish origin but has adopted the new Muslim creed.
Cut into tiny, abrupt chapters that can each function as a separate prose-poem, this odd, discombobulated little book is knit by a disaffected nay, sarcastic disposition.
In its first incarnation, the story was a young-adult fiction by Michael Morpurgo written from the point of view of the horse, who turned out to have complex feelings and a decent prose style.
Next month a collection of prose writing At the Source is published, and later this year another poetry collection, A Recipe for Water, will follow.
"Trademarks as opposed to use of a word in prose or everyday language are two very different things, " it said.
Clarity isn't an exciting virtue, but it's a virtue always, and especially at the beginning of a piece of prose.
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My goal for Upside magazine was to marry a Dan Jenkins prose style with the subjects of technology startups and IPOs.
When the SCLC needed money, it was Coretta Scott King who came to the fore, organizing a series of Freedom Concerts telling the story of the civil rights movement through a combination of prose, poetry and performance.
You can either while away an hour-long train journey getting lost in a paperback, or alternatively you could bury your head in some absorbing prose on a screen two inches (4cm) wide.
Hemingway still stands as a model for emphatic prose, so much so that his spirit has been summoned as a guide to the age of Twitter.
In between he became legendary for a singular approach to prose and to life.
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When we come back we'll continue talking about creative writing with Francine Prose, a novelist.
But they may not necessarily feel like slogging through the dense prose of a literary study.
At her best, Ms Sobel blends together anecdote, science and history in a confection of elegant prose.
We'll forget what it's like to flex those dorsal muscles, to consciously decipher a thorny stretch of prose.
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But his generous imagination was equally capable of appreciating the prose of a conservative thinker like Edmund Burke.
It descends, when the mood seems appropriate, into a kind of heightened prose.
These lines from Leviathan - Hobbes' best-known work and a masterpiece of English prose - have been read as meaning that humans are by nature violent animals.
In his brief, brilliant study "Nikolai Gogol, " Vladimir Nabokov accounts for Gogol's artistry through this and what he calls Gogol's "four dimensional" prose, a sinuous style that captures characters in their inner being.
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I'm a strong advocate of creating a lengthy outline of a novel before writing a single word of the prose.
Certainly a relief after the purple prose we got from Blair.
Part of what makes Mr Jones so angry and, as with all the best polemics, a luminous anger backlights his prose is that this sneering and humiliation is inflicted by the well-off on those who have the least.
Does the ability to write great prose translate to managing a team of reporters?
We're borne along on a stream of clean, lovely prose, but where are we going, and why?
"To get the opportunity to set those fantastic pieces of prose to music was a great thing to do, " he added.
Delivered in spare and amusing prose, Design Is a Job is a book to be judged not by its cover, but by its spine.
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