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The Reader Over Your Shoulder : a Handbook for Writers of English Prose.
"The best book on writing ever published" (Patricia T. O'Conner, author of Woe Is I). When Robert Graves and Alan Hodge decided to collaborate on this manual for writers, the world was in total upheaval. Graves had fled Majorca three years earlier at the start of the Spanish Civil War...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newburyport :
RosettaBooks,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Dedication; Introduction by Patricia T. O'Conner; Part I: The Reader Over Your Shoulder; 1. The Peculiar Qualities of English; 2. The Present Confusion of English Prose; 3. Where Is Good English to Be Found?; 4. The Use and Abuse of Official English; 5. The Beginnings of English Prose; 6. The Ornate and Plain Styles; 7. Classical Prose; 8. Romantic Prose; 9. Recent Prose; 10. The Principles of Clear Statement-I; 11. The Principles of Clear Statement-II; 12. The Principles of Clear Statement-III; 13. The Graces of Prose
- Part II: Examinations and Fair CopiesSir Norman Angell; Irving Babbitt; Earl Baldwin of Bewdley; Clive Bell; Viscount Castlerosse (later the Earl of Kenmare); Bishop of Chichester; G.D.H. Cole; Marquess of Crewe; Dr. Hugh Dalton, M.P.; Daphne Du Maurier; Sir Arthur Eddington; T.S. Eliot; Lord Esher; Admiral C.J. Eyres; Negley Farson; Major-Gen. J.F.C. Fuller; Major-Gen. Sir Charles Gwynn; Viscount Halifax; Cicely Hamilton; 'Ian Hay'; Ernest Hemingway; Aldous Huxley; Prof. Julian Huxley; Paul Irwin; Sir James Jeans; Prof. C.E.M. Joad; Senator Hiram Johnson
- J.M. Keynes (later Lord Keynes)Com. Stephen King-Hall; Dr. F.R. Leavis; Cecil Day Lewis; Desmond MacCarthy; Brig.-Gen. J.H. Morgan, K.C.; J. Middleton Murry; Sir Cyril Norwood; 'Observator'; An Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary; Eric Partridge; 'Peterborough'; Ezra Pound; J.B. Priestley; D.N. Pritt, K.C., M.P.; Herbert Read; I.A. Richards; Bertrand Russell; Viscount Samuel; George Bernard Shaw; Stephen Spender; J.W.N. Sullivan; Helen Waddell; Sir Hugh Walpole; H.G. Wells; Prof. A.N. Whitehead; Sir Leonard Woolley; About the Authors