Eats Shoots & Leaves

Small Hardback

Condition: Good

We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the Internet in e-mail and now text messages we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats Shoots & Leaves former editor Truss dares to say in her delightfully urbane witty and very English way that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with.