Free Writing Audiobooks

One of the most popular Librivox audio books on our site is Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases by Grenville Kleiser. The book introduces the importance of the useful phrase and how best to use this book in building your vocabulary.

Listen to this classic text on how to speak and write correctly in English. The author Joseph Devlin purports that the book "is merely an effort to help ordinary, everyday people to express themselves in ordinary, everyday language, in a proper manner."

The Elements of Style is a small guide written by William Strunk, Jr. that teaches the two fundamentals of good writing: how to choose the right words and how to compose them together without wasting space.

A collection of unintentionally humorous uses of the English language.

In this 2-hour audio book, author Brian Scott provides helpful advice for writing your book, getting it published, and then making a profit from it.

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Bierce considered poor (American) English and advice on alternatives – entertaining, thought-provoking, occasionally outdated but so interesting to see how style and taste have changed.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

Effective Business Writing for Success will give you the skills to make a positive impact - no matter what you are writing.

“The Foolish Dictionary” was written by “Gideon Wurdz” (the pen name for Charles Wayland Towne, according to this wiktionary entry), and was published in 1904.

The author discusses the benefits and drawbacks of choosing art as a vocation.

Poe’s famous narrative poem and the author’s reflections on its composition.