The most entertaining and instructive book ever written about comparing one thing to another. Ward Farnsworth provides an extraordinarily wide-ranging tour of the most eloquent metaphors, arranged them by theme, with historical and cultural backdrops that inspired their use. There are examples from novelists, playwrights, philosophers, and orators-along with Farnsworth's commentary on how and why they work to bring clarity and power in speech and in writing. | Farnsworth's Classical English Metaphor by Ward Farnsworth, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters