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A great and edifying pleasure. -- Mark Helprin, New York Times bestselling author A storehouse of effective writing, showing the techniques you may freely adapt to make music of your own. -- Baltimore Sun An eloquent study of the very mechanisms of eloquence. -- Henry Hitchings, author of The Language Wars For writers aspiring to master the craft, Farnsworth shows how it's done. For lovers of language, he provides waves of sheer pleasure. -- Steven Pinker, New York Times bestselling author His discerning analysis of classical style as wielded by some of the most inspiring writers in English: Jefferson, Lincoln, Churchill, Douglass, and many others. -- New Criterion Mr. Farnsworth has written an original and absorbing guide to English style. Get it if you can. -- Wall Street Journal

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Ward Farnsworth is dean of the University of Texas School of Law and author of The Practicing Stoic as well as the Farnsworth Classical English series, which includes Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric, Farnsworth's Classical English Metaphor, and Farnsworth's Classical English Style. Patrick Cullen (a.k.a. John Lescault), a native of Massachusetts, is a graduate of the Catholic University of America. He lives in Washington, DC, where he works in theater.

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