{"product_id":"clear-and-simple-as-the-truth-writing-classic-prose-second-edition-9780691147437","title":"Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose, Second Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Francis-Noel Thomas\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Rhetoric\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for the first edition: \"[\u003ci\u003eClear and Simple as the Truth\u003c\/i\u003e] has changed the way that I write and think about writing.\"\u003cb\u003e--Paul Bloom, Yale University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for the first edition: \"Far and away the best how-to-write book I've ever read. It puts Strunk and White and everyone else in the shade.\"\u003cb\u003e--John E. Talbott, University of California, Santa Barbara\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for the first edition: \"Thanks to Thomas and Turner, the cognitive revolution has finally caught up with the analysis of style--brilliantly, learnedly, and, above all, readably.\"\u003cb\u003e--David Lee Rubin, University of Virginia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for the first edition: \"\u003ci\u003eClear and Simple as the Truth\u003c\/i\u003e holds the promise of raising the level of the nation's prose.... The book is full of cogency and insight.\"\u003cb\u003e--Frederick Crews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for the first edition: \"A work of great intellectual elegance and power. I have read it with a lot of pleasure, admiring the wisdom and economy of its reflections and the extraordinary range of its citations.\"\u003cb\u003e--Claude Rawson, Yale University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for the first edition: \"A treatment of the classic style that manifests the virtues of the writing it propounds, expounds, and exemplifies in a wealth of fascinating passages, brilliantly analyzed.\"\u003cb\u003e--M. H. Abrams, Cornell University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for the first edition: \"Could well be the most important discussion of style since the great classical rhetoricians.\"\u003cb\u003e--Wayne C. Booth, University of Chicago\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for the first edition: \"One of the best discussions of style that I have recently read.\"\u003cb\u003e--Richard Preston, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hot Zone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for the first edition: \"The authors give one of the best discussions of style that I have ever read. Thomas and Turner juxtapose conventionally thought of as disparate, and thereby suggest possible new avenues of interpretation for critics of individual authors. \u003ci\u003eClear and Simple as the Truth\u003c\/i\u003e occupies a niche of its own, as a kind of hybrid between books on writing such as \u003ci\u003eThe Elements of Style\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Reader over Your Shoulder\u003c\/i\u003e, and more theoretical studies of representation, such as \u003ci\u003eMimesis\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cb\u003e--Richard Preston, author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Steel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45082908491927,"sku":"9780691147437","price":1995.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780691147437.webp?v=1767635256","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/clear-and-simple-as-the-truth-writing-classic-prose-second-edition-9780691147437","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}