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R. W. Burchfield, The New Fowler’s Modern English Usage, revised third edition, Oxford University Press, 1998

Rene J. Cappon, The Associated Press Guide to Punctuation, Perseus Publishing, 2003

G. V. Carey, Mind the Stop: a brief guide to punctuation with a note on proof-correction, Cambridge University Press, 1939

—— Punctuation, Cambridge University Press, 1957

David Crystal, Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, Cambridge University Press, 1995

—— Language and the Internet, Cambridge University Press, 2001

Kay Cullen (ed.), Chambers Guide to Punctuation, Chambers, 1999

H. W. Fowler, The King’s English, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1906

Karen Elizabeth Gordon, The New Well-Tempered Sentence: a punctuation handbook for the innocent, the eager, and the doomed, Houghton Mifflin, 1993

Ernest Gowers, Plain Words: a guide to the use of English, HMSO, 1948

Cecil Hartley, Principles of Punctuation: or, The Art of Pointing, 1818

Philip Howard, The State of the Language: English observed, Hamish Hamilton, 1984

F. T. Husband and M. F. A. Husband, Punctuation, its Principles and Practice, Routledge, 1905

Ben Jonson, English Grammar, 1640

Graham King, Punctuation, HarperCollins, 2000

Thomas McCormack, The Fiction Editor, the Novel, and the Novelist, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1989

John McDermott, Punctuation for Now, Macmillan, 1990

Malcolm Parkes, Pause and Effect: an introduction to the history of punctuation in the West, Scolar Press, 1992

Eric Partridge, Usage and Abusage: a guide to good English, Hamish Hamilton, 1947

—— You Have a Point There, Hamish Hamilton, 1953

Joseph Robertson, An Essay on Punctuation, 1785

Paul A. Robinson, “The Philosophy of Punctuation”, in Opera, Sex, and Other Vital Matters, Chicago University Press, 2002

Paul Saenger, Space between Words: the origins of silent reading, Stanford University Press, 1997

Reginald Skelton, Modern English Punctuation, Pitman, 1933

Gertrude Stein, “Poetry and Grammar”, in Look at Me Now and Here I Am: writings and lectures 1911—45, Peter Owen, 1967 (reissue imminent)

William Strunk and E. B. White, The Elements of Style, fourth edition, Longman, 2000

Abraham Tauber (ed.), George Bernard Shaw on Language, Peter Owen, 1965

James Thurber, The Years with Ross, Hamish Hamilton, 1959

James Thurber (eds. Helen Thurber and Edward Weeks), Selected Letters of James Thurber, Hamish Hamilton, 1982

Loreto Todd, Cassell’s Guide to Punctuation, Cassell & Co., 1995

R. L. Trask, The Penguin Guide to Punctuation, Penguin, 1997

William Vandyck, Punctuation Repair Kit, Hodder Headline, 1996

Bill Walsh, Lapsing into a Comma: a curmudgeon’s guide to the many things that can go wrong in print — and how to avoid them, Contemporary Books, 2000

Keith Waterhouse, English Our English (and How to Sing It), Viking, 1991

—— Sharon & Tracy & the Rest: the best of Keith Waterhouse in the Daily Mail, Hodder & Stoughton, 1992

—— Waterhouse on Newspaper Style, Viking, 1989

Персоналии

Аллен (Allen) Вуди (настоящее имя – Аллен Стюарт Кенигсберг) (р. 1935), американский кинорежиссер-комедиограф, сценарист, актер, писатель, музыкант.

Апдайк (Updike) Джон (р. 1932), американский прозаик, поэт, эссеист, литературный критик.

Байрон (Byron) Джордж Ноэл Гордон (1788–1824), английский поэт-романтик.

Барри (Barrie), Джеймс Мэтью (1860–1937), английский драматург и романист.

Бартелми (Barthelme) Доналд (1931–1989), американский писатель.

Бейкер (Baker) Николсон (р. 1957), американский писатель.

Беккет (Beckett) Сэмюэл (1906–1989), ирландский драматург, один из основоположников драмы абсурда. Писал на французском и английском языках. Лауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе 1969 года.