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    How to Write Powerful Prose: An essay by the author of 'Style'
    How to Write Powerful Prose: An essay by the author of 'Style'
    How to Write Powerful Prose: An essay by the author of 'Style'
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    How to Write Powerful Prose: An essay by the author of 'Style'

    By F L Lucas

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    Writing correct prose is one thing - writing powerful, persuasive prose quite another.
    F. L. Lucas, fellow of King's College, Cambridge and veteran of the Enigma team at Bletchley Park, wrote one of the 20th century's bestselling books on this second kind of writing.
    Lost for forty years, its dazzling and amusing advice is now back in print - and this eBook brings readers his brilliant essay on the same subject.
    A superbly condensed guide to the art of writing well, this eBook is the perfect introduction to the secrets of unforgettable English.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarriman House
    Release dateApr 30, 2012
    ISBN9780857192462
    How to Write Powerful Prose: An essay by the author of 'Style'

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      How to Write Powerful Prose - F L Lucas

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      HARRIMAN HOUSE LTD

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      Petersfield

      Hampshire

      GU32 2EW

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      First published 1960 in Holiday magazine as ‘On the Fascination of Style’. This eBook edition published 2012.

      Copyright © F. L. Lucas

      The right of F. L. Lucas to be identified as the Author has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

      Author photo reproduced by permission of the Fellows and Provost of King’s College, Cambridge, and Dr S. Oliver Lucas.

      ISBN: 9780857192462

      British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

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      All rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior written permission of the Publisher. This book may not be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise disposed of by way of trade in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published, without the prior written consent of the Publisher.

      About the Author

      F. L. Lucas (1894–1967), Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, was a distinguished scholar known for his studies of the Classics as well as of English Literature. The Sunday Times wrote that "Lucas has distinguished himself in more than thirty volumes as a poet, a novelist, a translator, a biographer,

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