The 1959 edition features White's expansions of preliminary sections, the "Introduction" essay (derived from his magazine feature story about Prof. Strunk concentrated on the cultivation of good writing and composition the original 1918 edition exhorted writers to "omit needless words", use the active voice, and employ parallelism appropriately. Īudiobook versions of The Elements now feature changed wording, citing "gender issues" with the original. It was performed at the New York Public Library in October 2005. Maira Kalman, who provided the illustrations for The Elements of Style Illustrated (2005, see below), asked Nico Muhly to compose a cantata based on the book. Mark Garvey relates the history of the book in Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White's The Elements of Style (2009). More than ten million copies of three editions were later sold.
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White's expansion and modernization of Strunk and Tenney's 1935 revised edition yielded the writing style manual informally known as "Strunk & White", the first edition of which sold about two million copies in 1959. Macmillan and Company subsequently commissioned White to revise The Elements for a 1959 edition (Strunk had died in 1946).
Weeks later, White wrote a feature story about Strunk's devotion to lucid English prose. White had studied writing under Strunk in 1919 but had since forgotten "the little book" that he described as a "forty-three-page summation of the case for cleanliness, accuracy, and brevity in the use of English". In 1957 the style guide reached the attention of E.B. Tenney later revised it for publication as The Elements and Practice of Composition (1935). (Harcourt republished it in 52-page format in 1920.) He and editor Edward A. wrote The Elements of Style in 1918 and privately published it in 1919, for use at the university. Cornell University English professor William Strunk Jr.
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