The Classics of Style

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A combination of textbook and reference guide, The Classics of Style is a style guide to the art of English language arts, published by The American Academic Press. From the work of some of America’s famous writers, the book teaches us the essential elements of English style.

Beginning with Professor William Strunk’s masterpiece on writing and grammar fundamentals, this book includes the guidance and advice of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Frederic Taber Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe and Edward Sapir.

In today’s communication age, it is important to effectively utilize and organize words concisely and clearly. The Classics of Style is made to provide guidance, content development, usage grammar and spelling rules to professional novelists, editors, reporters and poets, and of course college and advanced secondary students in liberal arts classes.

(ISBN-10: 0978728203) (ISBN-13: 9780978728205)