Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose, Second Edition Paperback - 2011
by Thomas, Francis-Nol; Turner, Mark
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Praise for the first edition: "[Clear and Simple as the Truth] has changed the way that I write and think about writing."--Paul Bloom, Yale University
Praise for the first edition: "Far and away the best how-to-write book I've ever read. It puts Strunk and White and everyone else in the shade."--John E. Talbott, University of California, Santa Barbara
Praise for the first edition: "Thanks to Thomas and Turner, the cognitive revolution has finally caught up with the analysis of style--brilliantly, learnedly, and, above all, readably."--David Lee Rubin, University of Virginia
Praise for the first edition: "Clear and Simple as the Truth holds the promise of raising the level of the nation's prose.... The book is full of cogency and insight."--Frederick Crews
Praise for the first edition: "A work of great intellectual elegance and power. I have read it with a lot of pleasure, admiring the wisdom and economy of its reflections and the extraordinary range of its citations."--Claude Rawson, Yale University
Praise for the first edition: "A treatment of the classic style that manifests the virtues of the writing it propounds, expounds, and exemplifies in a wealth of fascinating passages, brilliantly analyzed."--M. H. Abrams, Cornell University
Praise for the first edition: "Could well be the most important discussion of style since the great classical rhetoricians."--Wayne C. Booth, University of Chicago
Praise for the first edition: "One of the best discussions of style that I have recently read."--Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone
Praise for the first edition: "The authors give one of the best discussions of style that I have ever read. Thomas and Turner juxtapose conventionally thought of as disparate, and thereby suggest possible new avenues of interpretation for critics of individual authors. Clear and Simple as the Truth occupies a niche of its own, as a kind of hybrid between books on writing such as The Elements of Style and The Reader over Your Shoulder, and more theoretical studies of representation, such as Mimesis."--Richard Preston, author of American Steel
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- Title Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose, Second Edition
- Author Thomas, Francis-Nol; Turner, Mark
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: secon
- Pages 272
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey
- Date 2011-03
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780691147437
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Citations
- Choice, 09/01/2011, Page 0
- Christianity Today, 06/01/2011, Page 72
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