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The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White is a classic ebook pdf
AT THE close of the first World War, when I was a student
at Cornell, I took a course called English 8. My professor
was William Strunk Jr. A textbook required for the course
was a slim volume called The Elements of Style, whose
author was the professor himself.
year was 1919. The
book was known on the campus in those days as “the little
book,” with
stress on the word
I
.. It had been pri
vately printed by the author.
passed the course, graduated from the university, and
forgot the book but not the professor. Some thirty-eight
years later, the book bobbed up again in my life when Mac
millan commissioned me to revise it for the college market
and the general trade. Meantime, Professor Strunk had
died.
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