This is the first book to demonstrate the value of prose analysis - both appreciative and interpretive in its 'evaluations' - across dozens of authors, includin

This is the first book to demonstrate the value of prose analysis across dozens of significant authors.

First published in 1918, William Strunk Jr.'s The Elements of Style is a guide to writing in American English. The boolk outlines eight "elementary rules of usa

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Offers a deep history of style in theory and practice that transforms our understanding of style in the novel.