- Published: 27 March 2014
- ISBN: 9780241960356
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 320
Plain Words
- Published: 27 March 2014
- ISBN: 9780241960356
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 320
Gowers's main precepts are as sensible today as they were when he first presented them ... beneficial, intelligent and sympathetic
David Crystal
Rebecca Gowers has been charged with the task of producing a version which is true to the spirit of the original but adapted to the needs of the 21st century. She discharges this task with wit and delicacy
Stefan Collini, Prospect
Over half a century after Plain Words was first published, its principles are as important as ever: say what you mean in the clearest possible fashion. Rebecca Gowers has done a great job ... superb
Caroline Taggart
Vastly informative and indispensable
Bill Bryson
One thing that makes Gowers such an engaging figure is that he isn't prissy, priggish or prim. As far as he is concerned, language is a living thing that is constantly changing - and this is just as it should be
Sunday Telegraph
Itself a model of how plain words should be used
Telegraph
The zeal with which Sir Ernest uncovers error is matched only by the wit with which he chastises it
Evening Standard
The great Sir Ernest Gowers ... the grand old boy himself
Lynne Truss
I am glad that attention should be continually drawn to copies of this book ... I am in full sympathy with the doctrine laid down by Sir Ernest Gowers
Sir Winston Churchill
A small literary jewel
Evening News
A delight, a classic of its kind
John o'London's Weekly
Great fun to read
Economist
Brilliant
New Statesman
A sweetly reasonable and wholly admirable guide
The Times
It will delight far wider circles than those to whom it is primarily addressed
Observer