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“Clear and Simple as the Truth is an island of elegance. This book won’t tell you about working in publishing and doesn’t mention the Internet. It goes back to the source – the reason many of us got into this field in the first place – a love of language, of thoughts perfectly expressed, concepts elegantly communicated. When the authors say that the Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds is the epitome of classic writing, we believe them. We believe almost everything these authors say, because they say it so incredibly well.”
— Judy Cleary, The Editorial Eye

更多关于Clear and Simple的评论:

“清晰简单如真理，是一座优雅的岛屿。”这本书不会告诉你如何在出版业工作，也没有提到互联网。它可以追溯到源头——我们许多人最初进入这个领域的原因——对语言的热爱，对完美表达的思想，对优雅传达的概念的热爱。当作者说《奥杜邦协会北美鸟类野外指南》是经典写作的缩影时，我们相信他们。我们几乎相信这些作者所说的一切，因为他们说得非常好。”

——Judy Cleary, The Editorial Eye

“This marvelous little book avoids the inevitable arguments that arise from even the best How To and How Not To books. It does this by describing some fundamental questions that they identify as the elements of style and by illustrating the way that classic style can be defined by a particular set of answers to those questions. Stimulating, fresh, invigorating. I recommend it highly.”
— Michael Gordon-Smith.

这本了不起的小书避免了即使是最好的《如何做》和《如何不做》书中不可避免的争论。它描述了一些基本的问题，他们认为这些问题是风格的元素，并说明了经典风格可以通过对这些问题的一组特定答案来定义。刺激，新鲜，充满活力。我强烈推荐它。”

——迈克尔·戈登·史密斯。

“Clear and Simple is not just an almost peerless manual of style. Like George Orwell’s ‘Politics and the English Language’ and Herbert Read’s English Prose Style, it uncovers the intricate relationship between literary expression, mental power, ideological bent, and personal character. It does this by close analysis of brilliantly chosen texts in several languages. Since it is itself an exhibit of classic style, it is a delight to read and reread.”
— Richard Stern, novelist and professor, The University of Chicago.

《清晰与简单》不仅仅是一本几乎无与伦比的风格手册。就像乔治·奥威尔的《政治与英语》和赫伯特·里德的《英国散文风格》一样，这本书揭示了文学表达、精神力量、意识形态倾向和个人性格之间错综复杂的关系。它通过仔细分析精选的几种语言文本来做到这一点。因为它本身就是经典风格的展示，所以反复阅读是一种乐趣。”

——理查德·斯特恩，小说家，芝加哥大学教授。

“As Francis-Noël Thomas and Mark Turner argue in this intriguing (for those of you who share my enthusiasms, I’ll go so far as to call it thrilling) volume, learning to write is inevitably to learn styles of writing. This is a rigorous, extraordinarily captivating book, which, in its acute attention to the intellectual assumptions that shape prose style, has much to teach anyone caught in the web of words.”
— James Mustich, Jr. in A Common Reader. Go to full review.

正如Francis-Noël托马斯和马克·特纳在这本引人入胜的书中所说的那样(对于那些和我有同样热情的人，我将称之为激动人心)，学习写作不可避免地要学习写作风格。这是一本严谨、非常吸引人的书，它对塑造散文风格的智力假设的敏锐关注，让任何陷入文字网络的人都能学到很多东西。”

——小詹姆斯·马斯蒂奇《普通读者》进行全面审查。

“The most popular book on prose style is The Elements of Style by Strunk and White; I recommend it, although it is preoccupied with usage, punctuation, and grammar. The best book I have read on the substance of prose style is Thomas and Turner, Clear and Simple as the Truth; it deals mainly with one specific style, although others are considered along the way.”
— Herbert S. Bailey, Jr., former director of Princeton University Press.

“关于散文风格最受欢迎的书是斯特伦克和怀特的《文体要素》;我推荐这本书，尽管它主要是关于用法、标点和语法的。关于散文风格的实质，我读过的最好的书是托马斯和特纳的《像真理一样简单明了》;它主要处理一种特定的风格，尽管在此过程中会考虑其他风格。”

——Herbert S. Bailey, Jr.，普林斯顿大学出版社前主任。

“Clear and Simple as the Truth has a scope and relevance that exceeds its ostensible subject. It is a treatment of classic style that manifests the virtues of the writing it propounds, expounds, and exemplifies in a wealth of fascinating passages, brilliantly analyzed.”
— M. H. Abrams, Cornell University

《清晰而简单的真理》具有超越其表面主题的范围和相关性。这是一种对经典风格的处理，体现了它在大量迷人的段落中提出、阐述和例证的写作美德，分析得很出色。”

——康奈尔大学m·h·艾布拉姆斯

“Could well be the most important discussion of style since the great classical rhetoricians. It will certainly join the small list of style-guides that are permanently useful.”
— Wayne C. Booth, University of Chicago

很可能是自伟大的古典修辞学家以来最重要的风格讨论。它肯定会成为永远有用的时尚指南之一。”

——韦恩·c·布斯，芝加哥大学

“Clear and Simple as the Truth is a work of great intellectual elegance and power. I have read it with a lot of pleasure, admiring the wisdom and economy of its reflections and the extraordinary range of its citations. Thomas and Turner have made a powerful case for civilized and intelligent discourse, and have done it without hectoring or polemical reductiveness.”
— Claude Rawson, Yale University

《像真理一样简单明了》是一部充满智慧和力量的作品。我怀着极大的乐趣阅读了这本书，欣赏它的智慧和简洁的思考，以及它非凡的引用范围。托马斯和特纳为文明和智慧的话语提出了强有力的理由，而且没有威吓或争论性的简化。”

——克劳德·罗森，耶鲁大学

“Clear and Simple as the Truth holds the promise of raising the level of the nation’s prose. Thomas and Turner will have the literate nonacademic reader on their side from the outset and will win over most of the others through the sheer force of their passage-by-passage analysis. The book is full of cogency and insight.”
— Frederick Crews, University of California, Berkeley

《像真理一样清晰简单》有望提高美国散文的水平。托马斯和特纳从一开始就将有文化的非学术读者站在他们一边，并将通过他们逐段分析的纯粹力量赢得大多数其他人。这本书充满了说服力和洞察力。”

——弗雷德里克·克鲁斯，加州大学伯克利分校

“The best-known book about writing, Strunk & White’s The Elements of Style, offers an elaborate list of do’s and don’ts. Individually, these capsules of advice can be useful, but learn them all and you still won’t know how to write. Francis-Noël Thomas and Mark Turner have taken an entirely different approach in Clear and Simple. . . . [I]t is filled with enough general advice to benefit anyone who writes anything.”
— Christopher Ott, Writers’ Journal.

斯特伦克和怀特(Strunk & White)的《风格要素》(The Elements of Style)是最著名的关于写作的书，书中详细列出了应该做和不应该做的事情。单独来看，这些建议可能会很有用，但如果全都学了，你仍然不知道如何写作。Francis-Noël Thomas和Mark Turner在《清晰而简单》. . . .中采用了完全不同的方法它充满了足够的一般性建议，对任何写东西的人都有好处。”

——Christopher Ott，《作家杂志》

“Every once in a while a book comes along with the power to alter permanently the view of a subject you thought you knew well. For me this year, that book is Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose.”
— Denis Dutton, Philosophy and Literature. Go to full review in Philosophy and Literature

每隔一段时间，就会出现一本书，它具有一种力量，可以永久地改变你自以为非常熟悉的主题的观点。对我来说，今年的这本书是《像真理一样简单明了:写经典散文》。

——丹尼斯·达顿《哲学与文学》去哲学和文学的完整评论