这是一本薄薄的小书。首版于1918年由纽约一家出版社出版。作者William Strunk,康耐尔大学英语教授，E.B.怀特对此书加以了修正。此书短小精悍，容量巨大。涵盖了母语英语的人写作和用法上常出的错误，也清晰地解释了一些语法书中很难找到的语言现象。虽然是为说英语的学生所写,但对于任何需要进一步了解英文用法，进而学习书写英文的人，这本书必不可少的。

Do You Always Use the Right Word? Can You Pronounce It -- and Spell It -- Correctly? Do You Know How to Avoid Illiterate Expressions? Do You Speak Grammatically, Without Embarrassing Mistakes? If the answer to any of these questions is NO, you ought to read Word Power Made Easy. Now thoroughly revised to eliminate outmoded references and to to reflect current idioms, it remains the best and quickest means to a better vocabulary in the English language. Each chapter ends with review. Each section ends with a progressive check. Numerous tests will help you increase and retain the knowledge you acquired. Word Power Made Easy does more than just ass words to you vocabulary. It teaches ideas and a method of broadening knowledge as an integral part of the vocabulary building process.

这本词典除了英语常用词汇在英语惯用法中的正确用法和错误用法的详细说明以外，还有大量说明英国用法和美国用法的不同之处、各种表现方式的细微区别和普通用法与不普通用法之间的差异等等的例解，必要时加以详尽的说明。

《现代英文选评注》收入四十余位英美作家的文章，加以夏济安先生细密周详的评注，由夏志清先生校订。本书是学习英文最好的课外读物，选文内容有趣，风格清新，对原文难词难句及章节结构均有深入浅出的阐释，读者不但可加深对原文的理解，亦能欣赏原文修辞之精微，领会作者雕词琢句的苦心。

"On Writing Well" has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet. Whether you want to write about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts or about yourself in the increasingly popular memoir genre, "On Writing Well" offers you fundamental priciples as well as the insights of a distinguished writer and teacher. With more than a million copies sold, this volume has stood the test of time and remains a valuable resource for writers and would-be writers.