English Prose Style: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

English Prose Style, credited to Herbert Read, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of English Prose Style by Herbert Read. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Read's book describes the basic elements of composition and rhetoric: narrative form, eloquence, rhythm, and other important elements of what he asserts is valuable, worthwhile prose. The book is clearly dated, but it will be of especial interest to those studying works published before the Modernist movement in literature. - Summary by KevinS

Recording facts

• Recording title: English Prose Style
• Author credits: Herbert Read
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Combined MP3 track duration: 8:45:02

Catalogue topics

• writing
• composition
• prose

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction — 17:05
2. 01 - Words — 28:04
3. 02 - Epithets — 21:35
4. 03 - Metaphors — 22:35
5. 04 - The Sentences — 51:40
6. 05 - The Paragraph — 42:21
7. 06 - Arrangement — 27:50
8. 07 - Rhetoric — 7:06
9. 08 - Exposition — 25:35
10. 09 - Narrative, Section 1 — 45:04
11. 10 - Narrative, Section 2 — 38:47
12. 11 - Fantasy — 37:36
13. 12 - Imagery and Invention — 22:40
14. 13 - Intelligence — 29:00
15. 14 - Personality — 22:40
16. 15 - Eloquence — 43:18
17. 16 - Tradition — 33:17
18. 17 - Conclusion — 8:48

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