Gregory Pullum has derided this work as "the book that ate America's brain" due to its prescriptivist commands to "omit needless words" and avoid the passive voice.
This work quotes Robert Louis Stevenson in asking the reader to aim for "one moment of felicity." One edition of this text was illustrated in 2005 by Maira Kalman. Gregory Pullum has derided this work as "the book that ate America's brain" due to its prescriptivist commands to "omit needless words" and avoid the passive voice. For 10 points, name this slim volume of advice on grammar and form, edited by E.B. White and first written by William Strunk.
This work quotes Robert Louis Stevenson in asking the reader to aim for "one moment of felicity.
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