THE ATHENAEUMThe Elements of StyleWilliam Strunk
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The Elements of Style
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textWilliam Strunk Jr. had this little guide printed for his English students at Cornell in 1918. “Omit needless words,” it says, and then does. One of those students, E. B. White, revised it forty years later and made it famous; this is the original.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 55 minutes
- Where to find it
- The Lost Property Office, down the book lift in the west wing
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #37134. In the public domain in the United States.