If you've read the editor reviews and still not bought this book - then do. You'll find this book is possibly the best money that you'll ever spend. To begin with it is probably the book that the aforementioned editors used to fine-tune their style and it's a certainty that it's in the library of many current writers; even Stephen King keeps it as his writing companion. It's 'the little book.' It contains the original "seven rules of usage, eleven principles of composition, a few matters of form, and a list of words and expressions commonly misused," as propounded by William Strunk, and finally E.B. White addresses a chapter to "An Approach to Style." The profoundity of the book is timeless. Buy it!