The Reader Over Your Shoulder: A Handbook for Writers of English Prose

"The best book on writing ever published" (Patricia T. O'Conner, author of Woe Is I).

When Robert Graves and Alan Hodge decided to collaborate on this manual for writers, the world was in total upheaval. Graves had fled Majorca three years earlier at the start of the Spanish Civil War, and as they labored over their new project, they witnessed the fall of France and the evacuation of Allied forces at Dunkirk. Soon the horror of World War II would reach British soil as well, as the Luftwaf...