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Write it Right

by Ambrose Bierce (1842-?1914)

Witty, opinionated alphabetical examples of what Bierce considered poor (American) English and advice on alternatives – entertaining, thought-provoking, occasionally outdated but so interesting to see how style and taste have changed. Summary by Philippa

• Gutenberg e-text 12474
• Wikipedia – Ambrose Bierce
• LibriVox’s Write it Right Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book 48.6MB
• RSS feed · Subscribe in iTunes

Total running time: 1:41:13

mp3 and ogg files

• 1 – Section 1 – 00:14:19
  [mp3@64kbps - 6.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 13.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 7.4MB]
  Read by: Laurie Anne Walden
• 2 – Section 2 – 00:16:13
  [mp3@64kbps - 7.7MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 15.5MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 8.6MB]
  Read by: Esther
• 3 – Section 3 – 00:16:34
  [mp3@64kbps - 7.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 15.9MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 8.6MB]
  Read by: Philippa
• 4 – Section 4 – 00:17:50
  [mp3@64kbps - 8.5MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 17.1MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 9.7MB]
  Read by: Paul Williams
• 5 – Section 5 – 00:17:58
  [mp3@64kbps - 8.6MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 17.2MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 9.2MB]
  Read by: Mark Penfold
• 6 – Section 6 – 00:18:19
  [mp3@64kbps - 8.7MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 17.5MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 10.0MB]
  Read by: Sarah Jennings

Cataloged on June 30, 2008