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Book Title: Clear And Simple As The Truth: Writing Classic Prose - Secon...
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Name: Clear and Simple As the Truth : Writing Classic Prose-Second Edition
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2011
Subject: Style Manuals, Rhetoric, Composition & Creative Writing
Features: Revised
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines
Author: Mark Turner, Francis-Noël Thomas
Item Length: 8.7 in
Item Width: 7.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
