Farnsworth's Classical English Style

“An original and absorbing guide to English style. Get it if you can.”—Wall Street JournalSay it with style—on paper or in person. This book explains why the best writing sounds that way, with hun ...

“An original and absorbing guide to English style. Get it if you can.”—Wall Street JournalSay it with style—on paper or in person. This book explains why the best writing sounds that way, with hundreds of examples from Lincoln, Churchill, Douglass, and other masters of the language. As Farnsworth says, “Explaining a precept may take just a few words, but only examples can make it familiar to the ear. So we will consider examples from writers and orators who all have lessons to teach.”Farnsworth shows how small choices about words, sentences, and paragraphs put force into writing and speech tha