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You know the authors’ names. You recognize the title. You might have used this book yourself. And today The Components of Style–the most widely read and employed English style manual–is available in a specially bound 50th Anniversary Edition that offers the title's vast audience an possibility to own a more durable and elegantly bound edition of this time-tested classic.
Offering the same content as the Fourth Edition, revised in 1999, the new casebound 50th Anniversary Edition carries a brief summary of the book's illustrious history. Used extensively by individual writers as well as senior high school and university students of writing, they have conveyed the principles of English style to an incredible number of readers. This new deluxe edition makes the perfect gift for writers of any age and ability level.
Fifty Years of Acclaim for The Components of Style:
“I first read Elements of Style during the summer before I went off to Exeter, and I still direct my students at Harvard to their definition about the difference between 'that' and 'which.' It is the Bible for good, clear writing.” -- Henry Louis Gates Jr.
“For writers of all kinds and sizes the entire world commences and ends with Strunk and White’s Elements of Style. Only something to really write about trumps the set of what is required to put words together in a few kind of coherent way. I treasure its occurrence in my own life and salute its fifty years of glory and accomplishment.” -- Jim Lehrer
“The Components of Style remains an unwavering beacon of light in these grammatically troubled times. I'd be lost without it.”-- Ann Patchett
"For the extent I know how to write clearly by any means, I probably taught myself while I was teaching others -- seventh graders, in Flint, Michigan, in 1967. I taught them with a copy of Strunk & White lying in full view on my desk, type of in the way the Gideons leave Bibles in cheap hotel rooms, as a way of saying to the hapless inhabitant: ‘In case your reckless ways should strand you here, there's help.’ S&W doesn't really teach you how to write, it just tantalizingly reminds you that there surely is an orderly way to start it, that clarity's ever your ideal, but -- really -- it's all going to be up to you."-- Richard Ford
“The Components of Style never seems to walk out date. Its counsel is sound and funny, wise and unpretentious. Even though its precepts are a foundation of direct communication, Strunk and White do not insist upon a way of writing beyond clear expression. The others is up to the imagination, the intelligence within.”-- David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker
“It’s the toughness–the irreverence and implicit laughter–that attracted me to the little book when I was seventeen. I fell deeply in love with Strunk & White’s loathing for cant and bloviation, the ruthless cutting of crap, jargon, and further words. For me, that skeptical directness included a tacit permission by The Components of Style to break its rules sometimes: an alloy of generosity in the blade, a grace I still admire and still learn from.”-- Robert Pinsky
“Inside the quest for clarity, you can haven't any better guides than Strunk and White. For me, their book has been invaluable and remains essential.”-- Dan Rather
"Eschew surplusage! An ideal book."--Jonathan Lethem
"Not until I started teaching writing and I reread The Components of Style did I realize that most everything I'd be teaching young writers, and everything I'd be learning myself as a writer, was contained between the covers of this slim, elegant, wise little book."-- Julia Alvarez
“Strunk and White seared their way into my brain long ago, and I reap the benefits of them daily.”-- Steven J. Dubner, co-author of Freakonomics
“Since senior high school, I have kept a copy of this book handy. That needs to be unnecessary. I should, right now, have fully internalized The Components of Style. But sometimes I get entangled in a paragraph that won't be ‘clear, brief, bold.’ I dip back into The Components of Style and am refreshed. After Scott Simon interviewed me on NPR about if the word ‘e-mail’ needs a hyphen (yes, it can), some listeners, including friends of mine, wondered why I put answered in the affirmative when asked, in passing, ‘Have you been a drunken white man?’ Those listeners misheard. ‘Strunk and White man’ was what Scott said.”-- Roy Blount Jr.
“Strunk & White--writing's good-natured law firm--still contains enough sparkling good sense to clean up the complete bloviating blogosphere."-- Thomas Mallon
“I used Strunk -- that’s everything we called it, Strunk -- as a student at Berkeley fifty years back. I didn't know that it was new, and that people were the first generation to be educated in The Components of Style. I got a firm foundation in the English language, learned to write basically, and could depict the realistic world. Then I was able to become an impressionist and expressionist.” -- Maxine Hong Kingston
“Strunk and White's gigantic little book should be the most readable advice on writing ever written. Hand and hand with Roget, Shakespeare, the Bible, and a dictionary, it's an important for every writer's shelf.”-- X.J. Kennedy...
