Series: Farnsworth's Classical English

“Instructive and entertaining.” — Wall Street Journal Learn how to argue from the masters. This book is a complete course on the art of argument, taught by the greatest practitioners of it: Churchill, Lincoln, and hundreds of others from the golden age of debate in England and America. The book's concise chapters provide lessons in all aspects of give and...

"I must refrain from shouting what a brilliant work this is (prteritio). Farnsworth has written the book as he ought to have written it and as only he could have written it (symploce). Buy it and read it, buy it and read it (epimone)." - Bryan A. Garner, Garner's Modern English Usage Everyone speaks and writes in patterns. Farnsworth is...

Farnsworth's Classical English Style is a storehouse of effective writing, showing the techniques you may freely adapt to make music of your own. -The Baltimore Sun Say it with style—on paper or in person. This book explains why the best writing sounds that way, with more than 100 examples from Lincoln, Churchill, and other masters of the language. Farnsworth shows...