Eats, Shoots and Leaves

Publié par FOURTH ESTATE, le 26 mai 2011

244 pages

Résumé

Anxious about the apostrophe? Confused by the comma? Stumped by the semicolon? Join Lynne Truss on a hilarious tour through the rules of punctuation that is sure to sort the dashes from the hyphens. We all had the basic rules of punctuation drilled into us at school, but punctuation pedants have good reason to suspect they never sank in. 'Its Summer!' screams a sign that sets our teeth on edge. 'Pansy's ready', we learn to our considerable interest ('Is she?') as we browse among the bedding plants. It is not only the rules of punctuation that have come under attack but also a sense of why they matter. In this runaway bestseller, Lynne Truss takes the fight to emoticons and greengrocers' apostrophes with a war cry of 'Sticklers unite!'

EATS, SHOOTS AND LEAVES

Complètement schizo

Get Her Off the Pitch! - How Sport Took Over My Life

Tennyson’s Gift

A Certain Age

Eats, Shoots and Leaves ; The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed

A shot in the dark

Critiques