![]() Published April 16, 1959, Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style" went on to win critical acclaim and total sales of more than 10 million copies. White (Cornell Class of 1921) praised "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk Jr., his former Cornell English professor, as "an attempt to cut the vast tangle of English rhetoric down to size and write its rules and principles on the head of a pin."įurther, he described the 43-page treatise, first published in 1918, as a "case for cleanliness, accuracy, and brevity in the use of English." White's endorsement of "The Elements of Style" quickly led his publisher, Macmillan, to ask White to update and expand Strunk's terse primer on grammar and usage. The story behind it began at Cornell University. ![]() Grammarians rejoice! The classic little book "The Elements of Style" - the English classroom staple that urges omitting needless words, explains subject-verb agreement and savors the active voice - turns 50. ![]()
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