false 108835 8 Written by Patricia T. O'Conner, an editor at the <i>New York Times Book Review</i>, <i>Woe Is I</i> gives lighthearted, witty instruction on the subject most of us dreaded in school--grammar. Discussion is brief and concise, and much more engaging than the grammar books you may remember. With chapter titles such as "Woe is I: Therapy for Pronoun Anxiety," "Your Truly: The Possessive and the Possessed," "Verbal Abuse: Words on the Endangered List," "Comma Sutra; The Joy of Punctuation," and "Death Sentence: Do Cliches Deserve to Die?," O'Conner proves that even grammar can make for entertaining reading. 104889 1996 Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English, Second Edition total:524|5:149|4:206|3:130|2:30|1:9| 524 2028 910 85 2 3 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 01 08:46:12 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 01 08:49:16 -0700 2008 Eats, Shoots and Leaves really delivered.

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