The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage

8 best books like The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage (Kingsley Amis): Herzog, Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy, The Oxford Book of American Poetry, Garner's Modern American Usage, The Elements of Editing, Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific, Marrying the Mistress, The War against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000

Herzog

Author	Saul Bellow
ISBN	0142437298

This is the story of Moses Herzog, a great sufferer, joker, mourner, and charmer. Although his life steadily disintegrates around him - he has failed as a writer and teacher, as a father, and has lost the affection of his wife to his best friend - Herzog sees himself as a survivor, both of his private disasters...

Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy

Author	Thomas Sowell
ISBN	0465081452

This is the revised and enlarged edition of a new kind of introduction to economics for the general public-without graphs, statistics, or jargon. In addition to being updated, Basic Economics has also become more internationalized by including economic problems from more countries around the world,...

The Oxford Book of American Poetry

Author

David Lehman

Here is the eagerly awaited new edition of The Oxford Book of American Poetry brought completely up to date and dramatically expanded by poet David Lehman. It is a rich, capacious volume, featuring the work of more than 200 poets-almost three times as many as the 1976 edition. With a succinct and often...

Garner's Modern American Usage

Author	Bryan A. Garner
ISBN	0195161912

The first edition of Garner's Modern American Usage established Bryan Garner as "an American equivalent of Fowler" (Library Journal). With more than 23,500 copies sold, this witty, accessible, and engaging book has become the new classic reference work praised by professional copyeditors as well...

The Elements of Editing

Author

Arthur Plotnik

I'd like to share what is possibly the most erotic paragraph ever to discuss copyediting:

"An editor's only permanent alliance is with the audience, the readership. It is the editor's responsibility to hook that readership; to edify it, entertain it, stroke it, shake it up—do whatever...

Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific

Author	Eric M. Bergerud
ISBN	0140246967

A brilliant history of the land battles in the Pacific theater of World War II, with stirring personal accounts of the horrifying struggle between the Japanese and Allied forces.

The horrors of WWII in the South Pacific extended far beyond the detonation of atomic bombs. In this revelatory...

Marrying the Mistress

Author	Joanna Trollope
ISBN	0425179648

The court official leaned closer.
"What's gone past," he said, "is not just an advocate, any old lady advocate. What's gone past is his Honour's totty."

And what's going past is the life of Guy Stockdale, a 62-year-old judge, who has been married forever, has two sons--Simon and Alan--and...

The War against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000

Author	Martin Amis
ISBN	0375727167

Is there anything that Martin Amis can’t write about? In this virtuosic, career-spanning collection he takes on James Joyce and Elvis Presley, Nabokov and English football, Jane Austen and Penthouse Forum, William Burroughs and Hillary Clinton. But above all, Amis is concerned with literature,...