How to Write a Sentence

And How to Read One

by Stanley Eugene Fish

How to Write a Sentence

Hardcover, 165 pages, Harpercollins, List Price: $19.99 | purchase

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The author of Save the World on Your Own Time explains how to craft the perfect sentence, as well as how to appreciate well-written prose, in a book that draws on examples from William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Henry James, Martin Luther King Jr., Antonin Scalia, Elmore Leonard and more.

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