The Careful Writer

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Simon and Schuster, 1995 - 487 pages
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The definitive writers’ handbook of alphabetized entries that provides answers to questions of use, meaning, grammar, punctuation, precision, logical structure, and color.

The Careful Writer is a concise yet thorough handbook, covering in more than 2,000 alphabetized entries the problems that give (or should give) writers pause before they set words to paper. It is perhaps the liveliest and most entertaining reference work for writers of our time—delighting while it instructs and amusing even as it scolds and cajoles the reader into skillful, persuasive, and vivid writing. The Careful Writer, Mr. Bernstein’s major work on usage, is an indispensible desk reference, and a perennial source of continuing reading pleasure.
 

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Excellent reference. A bit outdated. A must for the writer's reference shelf. Consulter l'avis complet

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Table des matières

Section 1
3
Section 2
63
Section 3
87
Section 4
128
Section 5
154
Section 6
177
Section 7
198
Section 8
209
Section 14
286
Section 15
307
Section 16
324
Section 17
377
Section 18
382
Section 19
404
Section 20
439
Section 21
458

Section 9
221
Section 10
246
Section 11
248
Section 12
252
Section 13
268
Section 22
462
Section 23
470
Section 24
486
Section 25
489
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Page 415 - Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender...
Page 359 - Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, unless for the punishment of crime, shall ever be tolerated in this state.
Page 394 - We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement ; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us : for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves...
Page 448 - But I will punish home: No, I will weep no more. In such a night To shut me out! Pour on; I will endure. In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril! Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all O, that way madness lies; let me shun that; No more of that.
Page 479 - A specter haunts our culture— it is that people will ^eventually be unable to say, "They fell in love and married," let alone understand the language of Romeo and Juliet, but will as a matter of course say, "Their libidinal impulses being reciprocal, they activated their individual erotic drives and integrated them within the same frame of reference.
Page 96 - slithy' means 'lithe and slimy.' 'Lithe' is the same as 'active.' You see it's like a portmanteau— there are two meanings packed up into one word.
Page 227 - all animals are equal but some are more equal than others' is not witty in Orwell's eyes but profoundly disturbing.

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