The Reader Over Your Shoulder: A Handbook For Writers Of English Prose
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
The Reader Over Your Shoulder is the definitive guide for anyone who has ever wrestled with the written word — a rigorous, witty, and uncompromising handbook that holds English prose to the highest standard of clarity, logic, and grace. Written by two of the twentieth century's sharpest literary minds, it chronicles the most common failures of written English and instructs writers on how to think clearly and communicate precisely, drawing on hundreds of examples from celebrated authors who, more often than not, fall short of their own reputations. Robert Graves — poet, novelist, and mythographer — and Alan Hodge bring to this work an authority born of deep immersion in the English literary tradition. Their style is brisk and unapologetic, dismantling vague, pompous, and muddled prose with surgical precision. Now revised and abridged in this Second Edition, the handbook remains as essential as ever, presenting timeless principles that challenge every writer to ask the most demanding question of all: does the reader understand exactly what you mean?
Author: Robert Graves And Alan Hodge
Format: Hardback
Genre: Reference & language
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
The Reader Over Your Shoulder is the definitive guide for anyone who has ever wrestled with the written word — a rigorous, witty, and uncompromising handbook that holds English prose to the highest standard of clarity, logic, and grace. Written by two of the twentieth century's sharpest literary minds, it chronicles the most common failures of written English and instructs writers on how to think clearly and communicate precisely, drawing on hundreds of examples from celebrated authors who, more often than not, fall short of their own reputations. Robert Graves — poet, novelist, and mythographer — and Alan Hodge bring to this work an authority born of deep immersion in the English literary tradition. Their style is brisk and unapologetic, dismantling vague, pompous, and muddled prose with surgical precision. Now revised and abridged in this Second Edition, the handbook remains as essential as ever, presenting timeless principles that challenge every writer to ask the most demanding question of all: does the reader understand exactly what you mean?