Clear and Simple as the Truth
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Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose
By Mark Turner, Francis-Noël ThomasClassic prose is found everywhere: from Thomas Jefferson to Junichirō Tanizaki, from Mark Twain to the observations of an undergraduate. Here are many fine performances in classic style, each clear and simple as the truth.
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Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose
By Mark Turner, Francis-Noël Thomas""Clear and Simple as the Truth" holds the promise of raising the level of the nation's prose.... The book is full of cogency and insight."--Frederick Crews "A work of great intellectual elegance and power.
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Clear and Simple As the Truth: Writing Classic Prose
By Mark Turner, Francis-Noël ThomasEveryone talks about styl. "Clear and Simple as the Truth holds the promise of raising the level of the nation's prose.... The book is full of cogency and insight."--Frederick Crews "A work of great intellectual elegance and power.
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Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose
By Mark Turner, Francis-Noël ThomasThe passage from A. J. Liebling describing the statue of Huey Long may seem at first glance to have nothing in common with the passage from Toni Morrison . Morrison is talking about a cultural abstraction and its sequence of change ...
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Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose - Second Edition
By Mark Turner, Francis-Noël ThomasEveryone talks about style, but no one explains it. The authors of this book do; and in doing so, they provoke the reader to consider style, not as an elegant accessory of effective prose, but as its very heart.