Simple & Direct - Softcover

Barzun, Jacques

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060937238 ISBN 13: 9780060937232

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2001

Synopsis

A fter a lifetime of writing and editing prose, Jacques Barzun has set down his view of the best ways to improve one's style. His discussions of diction, syntax, tone, meaning, composition, and revision guide the reader through the technique of making the written word clear and agreeable to read. Exercises, model passages both literary and casual, and hundreds of amusing examples of usage gone wrong show how to choose the right path to self-expression in forceful and distinctive words.

About this title

About the Author:

Born in France in 1907, Jacques Barzun came to the United States in 1920. After graduating from Columbia College, he joined the faculty of the university, becoming Seth Low Professor of History and, for a decade, Dean of Faculties and Provost. The author of some thirty books, including the New York Times bestseller From Dawn to Decadence, he received the Gold Medal for Criticism from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, of which he was twice president. He lived in San Antonio, Texas, before passing away at age 104.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0060937238
• ISBN 13: 9780060937232
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 288