Farnsworth’s Classical English Metaphor Audiobook, by Ward Farnsworth Play Audiobook Sample

Farnsworth’s Classical English Metaphor Audiobook

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Read By: John Lescault, John Lescault Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.38 hours at 2.0x Speed Series: The Farnsworth Classical English Series Release Date: December 2020 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781799962595

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

142

Longest Chapter Length:

12:27 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

58 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

03:44 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

7

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Publisher Description

Make your writing and speech shine like the sun! Here’s the most entertaining and instructive book about enlivening and clarifying communication by comparing one thing to another.

Ward Farnsworth provides a wide-ranging, practical tour of metaphors, arranged by theme. He shows how the best writers have put figurative comparisons to distinctive use―for the sake of caricature, to make an abstract idea visible, to make a complicated idea simple.

Using hundreds of examples, Farnsworth demonstrates all the different stylistic ways that points can be unforgettably made. There are quotations from novelists, playwrights, philosophers, and orators—along with commentary on how and why they work to bring power to words both in person and and on paper.

Writers and speakers, this book will make you a star.

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“A feat of elegant demystification…Farnsworth is able to focus on the finite material of metaphorical referents…a brilliant strategy, both in its utility for writers and the inherent insight Farnsworth’s divisions suggest about metaphors.”

— Millions.com 

Quotes

  • “His discerning analysis of classical style as wielded by some of the most inspiring writers in English: Jefferson, Lincoln, Churchill, Douglass, and many others.”

    — New Criterion
  • “I want this book to be beside my bed for years to come, a treasure-house of the liquid magic of words.”

    — Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author
  • “Ward Farnsworth is a witty commentator…It’s a book to dip in and savor.”

    — Boston Globe
  • “Most people will find it a grab-bag of memorable quotations, an ideal browsing book for the nightstand.”

    — Washington Post

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About Ward Farnsworth

Ward Farnsworth is dean and John Jeffers Research Chair at the University of Texas School of Law. He received his JD with high honors from the University of Chicago Law School, and his BA from Wesleyan University. He is the author of books on law, philosophy, rhetoric, and chess and has published scholarly articles on the economic analysis of law, constitutional law, statutory interpretation, jurisprudence, and cognitive psychology.

About the Narrators

John Lescault, a native of Massachusetts, is a graduate of the Catholic University of America. He lives in Washington, DC, where he works in theater.

John Lescault, a native of Massachusetts, is a graduate of the Catholic University of America. He lives in Washington, DC, where he works in theater.