This book is based on the York Computer Inventory of Prose Style, which seeks to provide a quantitative description of the syntactic characteristics of the literary language of specific authors over the last 400 years. After a brief theoretical introduction and a description of texts and sampling procedures, the discussion turns to specific analyses of style: characteristics of the sentence, of stylistic types, of three major authors (Sidney, Hemingway, and Carlyle) in relation to their contemporaries, and of historical changes in style as reflected in the works of the authors in the York Inventory. (AA)