HOME

The Elements of Style

The Elements of Style

Author(s):

Genre(s): , ,

Narrators:

Number of Chapters: 11

Length: 1 hour and 51 minutes

Language: English

“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)

Listening:
Continue to listen:    
00 – I. Introductory (Nicholas James Bridgewater)
01 – II. Elementary Rules of Usage: Rules 1 – 4 (Nicholas James Bridgewater)
02 – II. Elementary Rules of Usage: Rules 5 – 8 (Nicholas James Bridgewater)
03 – III. Elementary Principles of Composition: Rules 9 – 10 (Nicholas James Bridgewater)
04 – III. Elementary Principles of Composition: Rules 11 – 13 (Nicholas James Bridgewater)
05 – III. Elementary Principles of Composition: Rules 14 – 16 (Nicholas James Bridgewater)
06 – III. Elementary Principles of Composition: Rules 17 – 18 (Nicholas James Bridgewater)
07 – IV. A Few Matters of Form (Nicholas James Bridgewater)
08 – V. Words and Expressions Commonly Misused: all right to most (Nicholas James Bridgewater)
09 – V. Words and Expressions Commonly Misused: nature to would (Nicholas James Bridgewater)
10 – VI. Spelling (Nicholas James Bridgewater)
The audiobook The Elements of Style falls under the genres of , , . It is written by .