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Classical in form, cool, spare and warm.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Sir Ernest Gowers
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Penguin UK, Penguin Books Ltd
- Editions
- 1
- ISBN
- 9780140511994
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About Sir Ernest Gowers · 1880–1966
A senior British civil servant, Sir Ernest Gowers was the author of both *Plain words* (1948) and *The ABC of plain words* (1951). These two works he later combined and revised as *The complete plain words* (1954). He went on to revise H. W. Fowler's evergreen work *Modern English usage* (1965).
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