📚 Composition and Exercises

Books with composition and exercises on their catalogue record, first published between 1776 and 2011, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject composition and exercises in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 15,956 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	English grammar	Lindley Murray	1795	126
	How to write clearly	Edwin Abbott Abbott	1875	79
	English exercises adapted to Murray's English grammar	Lindley Murray	1798	51
	Journeys	HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT	2011	45
	Germelshausen	Friedrich Gerstäcker	1880	39
	La locandiera	Carlo Goldoni	1776	31
	Discovering French	Jean-Paul Valette	1993	30
	Play and say with Paddy and Pip	Diana Webster	1973	24
	Vocabulary for Achievement	Margaret Ann Richek	1987	22
	How to learn Gaelic	Alexander Macbain	1902	21
	Writing with a purpose	James McNab McCrimmon	1950	21
	Latin for Americans	B. L. Ullman	1941	19
	English Grammar and Composition	John E. Warriner	1963	19
	Write Source	GREAT SOURCE	2004	19
	Read, Write and Remember	Constance Milburn	1971	16
	Elements of Writing	James L. Kinneavy	1993	16
	Teaching Writing	Gail E. Tompkins	1990	15
	Introductory Hebrew method and manual	William Rainey Harper	1888	14
	The Lively Art of Writing	Lucile Vaughan Payne	1965	14
	Teach yourself Dutch	H. Koolhoven	1941	13
	French exercises for advanced pupils	C. A. Chardenal	1800	12
	Prentice-Hall grammar and composition	Gary Forlini	1983	12
	Writer's Choice	McGraw-Hill	1995	12
	Español escrito	Guadalupe Valdés	1978	11
	Deutsche Sprachlehre für Ausländer	Heinz Griesbach	1956	10
	Basic grammar and usage	Penelope Choy	1978	10
	A writer's workbook	Trudy Smoke	1986	10
	English Composition and Grammar	John E. Warriner	1988	10
	Writers Inc	Patrick Sebranek	1992	10
	How to write themes and essays	John McCall	1966	9

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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