William Strunk Jr's Illustrative Guide to The Elements of Style

CavemanCaveman: The media could not be loaded.  An illustrated edition might sound over kill for such a book, but it's well worth it for people who love the world of writing and grammar.

India on Oct 29, 2023

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France on Sep 24, 2023

Sharon: I have always loved this helpful book and this more recent edition with lovely colorful illustrations is a gem. Highly recommended for ANYONE who loves the English language and wants to be a better writer...In my view, it should be a required little text for any English class and especially for any class for teachers of English!

United States on Sep 19, 2023

Stan B: If you attended college, Strunk and White was foisted on you in Freshman English class. it was me, but at the time, I was too unaware of, and too uncaring about writing to pay a lot of attention to it. I actually got back to it twenty-five years later after reading Charlotte's Web to my daughter. Great story, but what impressed me equally was the prose. To me, it's as close to perfect in that respect as a writer can come. So I bounced back to The Elements of Style, co-authored by EB White. Now it read to me less like a text book and more like distilled wisdom. It seems to say to me, "You can't know everything, but you really ought to know this!" Maira Kalman raises this essential book to a new height by her amazing illustrations of Strunk's and White's example sentences. For example, one of the lessons concerns how to group ideas in sentences. The corrected version of "He noticed a large stain in the rug that was right in the center," was "He noticed a large stain right in the center of the rug." Kalman's full page drawing of this sentence has an affluent family relaxing in a formal living room in which, in the center of the rug, there is a dead body lying in a pool of blood-- the...

United States on Nov 12, 2021

Amanda: Perfecto! Impecable! Súper bien cuidado y sin ninguna nota o suciedad. Muchas gracias ❤️

Spain on Feb 01, 2021

Amazon Customer: I didn't realize how important this book would be to my writing. There are many points that I am already aware of but it's a great tool that I still use often

Canada on Jan 14, 2021

Vivi FigueiraVivi Figueira: Uma versão do famoso livro de Jr Strunk William e E. B. White, com ilustrações da artista Maira Kalman. Como fã da artista, gosto de ver suas ilustrações. Quanto ao texto do livro, é um livro em inglês com dicas de como escrever bem. Acredito que pode ter utilidade a qualquer pessoa interessada no ato de escrever, seja com ênfase na escrita inglesa, ou mesmo em português, já que várias regras valem também para a nossa língua.

Brazil on Mar 24, 2019

BigSmiler: I've been a professional writer and a member of Writer Critique Groups. We regard The Elements of Style as the foremost authority for writing. It is what settles debates. We give copies as gifts and prizes. However, something is starting to bug me about The Elements of Style. Search for it on Amazon and notice how many different versions pop up. Having a new edition every years means it's entering the fashion industry. Also notice how many author combinations there are. I realize the English language of today is different from 100 years ago, BUT when our Fundamental Guide changes yearly, it's time for something more stable. I suspect the authors are just trying to sell more books.

United States on Oct 24, 2013

Nico Brusso: My new "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White, illustrated by Maira Kalman, lies before me now, beside the 1959 edition that I have had since August of that year.

Since I hadn't reread the old one in who knows how many years, what induced me to buy a new one? I have always retained affection for Strunk's "little book."

Recently I read a review of the new "The Elements of Style Illustrated," and saw a few of the paintings by Maira Kalman. And I heard of the song cycle, based on the book, composed by young Nico Muhly in collaboration with Ms. Kalman and premiered in the Rose Main Reading Room of the New York Public Library.

The illustrated book sounded like fun, so I ordered it, which prompted me to read Strunk's words again with new appreciation.

The overall design of the new book is appealing -- bright red covers, a somewhat larger format (about an inch wider, a half-inch taller, and 156 pages as opposed to 71), the cleaner look of the pages (with more white space and semi-glossy). Both books are hardbacks; I think I would not like the feel of the new one as a paperback.

Most striking on the mostly bare, red front cover, is...

United States on Mar 22, 2007