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You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. And now The Elements 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 opportunity to own a more durable and elegantly bound edition of this time-tested classic.
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Cool, spare, classical in form and warm.
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- William Strunk, Jr., E. B. White
- First published
- 1959
- Pages
- 76
- Publisher
- Franklin Classics, Penguin Press, Pearson P T R
- Editions
- 288
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9798547907852
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