Christopher Howse

What’s notable about ‘a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife’? 

You'll learn about litotes, synecdoches, zeugmas, isocolons and the right way to order your adjectives in Mark Forsyth's The Elements of Eloquence

P G Wodehouse writing at his home in Paris, 1945 Photo: Getty
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  • The Elements of Eloquence

    Mark Forsyth

    Icon Books, pp. 208

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