In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very
English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things
they are. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention
of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes
a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about
with.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Frank McCourt
Publisher's Note
Preface
Introduction--The Seventh Sense
The Tractable Apostrophe
That'll Do, Comma
Airs and Graces
Cutting a Dash
A Little Used Punctuation Mark
Merely Conventional Signs
