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"The Elements of Style", was first written by William Strunk in 1918 for private use at Cornell University, where Strunk was a professor of English, and republished by Harcourt in 1920 for the public. The concise handbook remains one of the most important and influential English writing style guides ever published. The original edition of the guide is organized into eight elementary rules of usage (such as using the active voice rather than the passive),...

Provides an introduction to the grammar rules and word usage of interjections, discussing punctuation and cultural interjections.

A series of nine lectures covering the story, plot, characterization, pattern and rhythm in the novel.

In the last of his World War I adventures, Richard Hannay undertakes his most dangerous assignment yet When England calls, Richard Hannay answers. Not yet forty and already a brigadier general, he has led the charge into some of the fiercest fighting of World War I: Loos, the Somme, Arras. There is no telling how far up the ranks he might climb if only the Foreign Office would stop taking him off the front lines for cloak and dagger work. Adding insult...

An existential chronicle of the polarizing punctuation mark traces its emergence in the wake of nineteenth-century grammar books and the ways it has been embraced or reviled by prominent authors.

Discusses what synonyms and antonyms are, how to use them properly when writing formally and informally, and how to create antonyms using prefixes and suffixes.

The Real Diary of a Real Boy by Henry A. Shute libreka classics — These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!