5 best-selling nonfiction books like On Writing, Editing, and Publishing: Essays, Explicative and Hortatory (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, & Publishing) by Jacques Barzun

Cover of On Writing, Editing, and Publishing: Essays, Explicative and Hortatory (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, & Publishing) by Jacques Barzun

On Writing, Editing, and Publishing: Essays, Explicative and Hortatory (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, & Publishing)

By: Jacques Barzun

3.90

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

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1. The Elements of Style

By: E.B. White , William Strunk Jr.

4.18

Format: 105 pages, Hardcover

This style manual offers practical advice on improving writing skills. Throughout, the emphasis is … read more

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"He owned"

-E.B. White, The Elements of Style

"To achieve style, begin by affecting none."

-E.B. White, The Elements of Style

"Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion."

-E.B. White, The Elements of Style

"When a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor."

-E.B. White, The Elements of Style

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2. The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689

By: Jonathan Healey

4.20

Format: 492 pages, Hardcover

A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative ” history ( The New York Times ) of seventeenth-centur… read more

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3. On Revision: The Only Writing That Counts (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

By: William Germano

4.02

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A trusted editor turns his attention to the most important part of revision. So you’ve just finis… read more

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4. On Writing, Editing, and Publishing: Essays, Explicative and Hortatory (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, & Publishing)

By: Jacques Barzun

3.90

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

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5. The Princeton Guide to Historical Research

By: Zachary M. Schrag

4.28

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

The essential handbook for doing historical research in the twenty-first century The Princeton G… read more

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11 best-selling nonfiction books like The Elements of Style by E.B. White, William Strunk Jr.

Transform Your Habits

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Lynne Truss

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Natalie Goldberg

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Point Made: How to Write Like the Nation's Top Advocates

Ross Guberman

3.77

Transform Your Habits

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

William Zinsser

4.24

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