The Elements of Style (Original Edition)
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This classic reference is a must-have for any student or writer. In this brief handbook, Strunk identifies the principal requirements of proper American English style and concentrates on the most often violated rules of composition. Authoritative and engagingly written, this is simply the greatest book of its kind.
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
This was my first purchase via Kindle and could well be my last. An appealing price compared to a paper copy attracted me to this version, but frequent typesetting problems and other display errors make it poor value.
A suitable example from chapter II section 16 as it appears on Kindle (before wrapping to the width of the window):
"... The subject of a sentence and the principal verb should not, as a rule, be separated by a phrase or clause that can be transferred to the beginning.
Wordsworth, in the fifth book of The Excursion, gives a minute description of this church.
Cast iron, when treated in a Bessemer converter, is changed into steel.
In the fifth book of The Excursion, Wordsworth
gives description of a minute this church.
By treatment converter, cast iron is changed into steel.
in a Bessemer" (sic. including pointless line breaks and jumbled words)
This should read:
... The subject of a sentence and the principal verb should not, as a rule, be separated by a phrase or clause that can be transferred to the beginning.
Wordsworth, in the fifth book of The Excursion, gives a minute description of this church.
Cast iron, when treated in a Bessemer converter, is changed into steel.
In the fifth book of The Excursion, Wordsworth gives a minute description of this church.
By treatment in a Bessemer converter, cast iron is changed into steel."
It would be better still to keep something of the original layout in which the original (bad) and new (improved) versions sat side-by-side.
When the majority of the meaning of a book is about layout, careful placement of punctuation and sentence construction, errors such as these either:
(a) make the ebook utterly useless
or
(b) unintentionally turn each paragraph into a jigsaw puzzle which makes you concentrate harder.
Buy a print copy!
A suitable example from chapter II section 16 as it appears on Kindle (before wrapping to the width of the window):
"... The subject of a sentence and the principal verb should not, as a rule, be separated by a phrase or clause that can be transferred to the beginning.
Wordsworth, in the fifth book of The Excursion, gives a minute description of this church.
Cast iron, when treated in a Bessemer converter, is changed into steel.
In the fifth book of The Excursion, Wordsworth
gives description of a minute this church.
By treatment converter, cast iron is changed into steel.
in a Bessemer" (sic. including pointless line breaks and jumbled words)
This should read:
... The subject of a sentence and the principal verb should not, as a rule, be separated by a phrase or clause that can be transferred to the beginning.
Wordsworth, in the fifth book of The Excursion, gives a minute description of this church.
Cast iron, when treated in a Bessemer converter, is changed into steel.
In the fifth book of The Excursion, Wordsworth gives a minute description of this church.
By treatment in a Bessemer converter, cast iron is changed into steel."
It would be better still to keep something of the original layout in which the original (bad) and new (improved) versions sat side-by-side.
When the majority of the meaning of a book is about layout, careful placement of punctuation and sentence construction, errors such as these either:
(a) make the ebook utterly useless
or
(b) unintentionally turn each paragraph into a jigsaw puzzle which makes you concentrate harder.
Buy a print copy!
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
It's a shame that Amazon don't have a extra review section, for comment on how the book translates into a Kindle edition. I'm having to mark Strunk's good work poorly, because the publisher has been too lazy to make a proper kindle edition. I'm sure this would be a good read if it was, y'know, readable. At the moment it's nothing other than robbery.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
This book was a struggle to read, mainly due to the awful formatting. The examples littered throughout tended to mix in with the main body of text, leading to their impact being reduced.
Buy the paper version.
Buy the paper version.
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