Perma-Bound reinforced paperback book made for libraries. White (Cornell Class of 1921) praised 'The Elements of Style' by William Strunk Jr., his former Cornell English professor, as 'an attempt to cut the vast tangle of English rhetoric down to size and write its rules and principles on the head of a pin. A textbook required for the course was a slim volume called The Elements of Style, whose author was the professor himself. At the close of the first World War, when I was a student at Cornell, I took a course called English 8.

The Elements Of Style by William Strunk Jr. White wrote this introduction for the 1979 edition.

That was the first edition of the so-called Strunk & White, which Time named in 2011 as one of the 100 best and most influential books written in English since 1923. White was the author of Charlottes Web and Stuart Little, contributor to The New Yorker and co-author of The Elements of Style. White greatly enlarged and revised the book for publication by Macmillan in 1959. Whites Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic. in 1918, and published by Harcourt in 1920, comprising eight 'elementary rules of usage', ten 'elementary principles of composition', 'a few matters of form', a list of 49 'words and expressions commonly misused', and a list of 57 'words often misspelled'. With Revisions, an Introduction, and a Chapter on Writing BY E.B.WHITE F O U R TH. The original was composed by William Strunk Jr. The Elements of Style T HE ELEMENTS OF Style BY WILLIAM STRUNK Jr. The Elements of Style is an American English writing style guide by William Strunk Jr.

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