The Elements of Style: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Elements of Style, credited to William Strunk Jr., is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Elements of Style, by William Strunk Jr. Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater. The Elements of Style (1918) by William Strunk, Jr. is an American English writing style guide. It is one of the best-known and most influential prescriptive treatment of English grammar and usage, and often is required reading in U.S. high school and university composition classes. The original 1918 edition of The Elements of Style detailed eight elementary rules of usage, ten elementary principles of composition, “a few matters of form”, and a list of commonly "misused" words and expressions. This book, printed as a private edition in 1918 for the use of his students, became a classic on the local campus, known as "the little book", and its successive editions have since sold over ten million copies. This version is based on the public-domain text from 1918, which was originally uploaded to Wikibooks and wikified by Wikibooks:User:Lord Emsworth in 2003. In January 2006, Kernigh transwikied the text from Wikibooks:Elements of Style to Wikisource. (Summary by Wikipedia and Wikisource)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Elements of Style
• Author credits: William Strunk Jr.
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 1:51:05

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Track guide

1. 00 - I. Introductory — 4:58
2. 01 - II. Elementary Rules of Usage: Rules 1 - 4 — 12:17
3. 02 - II. Elementary Rules of Usage: Rules 5 - 8 — 10:17
4. 03 - III. Elementary Principles of Composition: Rules 9 - 10 — 14:19
5. 04 - III. Elementary Principles of Composition: Rules 11 - 13 — 11:39
6. 05 - III. Elementary Principles of Composition: Rules 14 - 16 — 12:46
7. 06 - III. Elementary Principles of Composition: Rules 17 - 18 — 7:40
8. 07 - IV. A Few Matters of Form — 6:48
9. 08 - V. Words and Expressions Commonly Misused: all right to most — 13:05
10. 09 - V. Words and Expressions Commonly Misused: nature to would — 10:35
11. 10 - VI. Spelling — 6:49

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