Simple and Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers

Barzun, Jacques

ISBN 10: 0060102365 / ISBN 13: 9780060102364

Edité par Harper & Row, NY, 1975

A propos de cet article

212pp. Boards have a slight bend. Spine ends are bumped. Rear board has a surface tear near the top tip. Spine is a bit shaken. Spine panel, flap folds, and edges of jacket are sunned with correlating toning to the inside of the jacket. Spine panel has light damp stains. Edges of jacket have creases. Lower edge of rear panel has a couple of tiny tears. Text is unmarked. 0060102365.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Simple and Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers
• Éditeur: Harper & Row, NY
• Date de parution: 1975
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0060102365
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780060102364
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: Second Printing.
• État de l'article: Very Good Minus
• État de la jaquette: Good Minus Jacket
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Writers, Writing, Journalism

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Synopsis

Book by Barzun Jacques

Biographie de l'auteur

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.