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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 808.042 EAN: 9780205309023 Edition: 4th ISBN: 020530902X Label: Longman Manufacturer: Longman Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 105 Publication Date: August 02, 1999 Publisher: Longman Studio: Longman Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Composition teachers throughout the English-speaking world have been pushing this book on their students since it was first published in 1957. Co-author White later revised it, and it remains the most compact and lucid handbook we have for matters of basic principles of composition, grammar, word usage and misusage, and writing style. Book Description: This is the braille version of the timeless reference book. According to the St. Louis Dispatch, this "excellent book, which should go off to college with every freshman, is recognized as the best book of its kind we have." It should be the ". . . daily companion of anyone who writes for a living and, for that matter, anyone who writes at all" (Greensboro Daily New). "No book in shorter space, with fewer words, will help any writer more than this persistent little volume" (The Boston Globe). Two volumes in braille. Average Rating:
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