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Audiobook format M4B allows for bookmarking and change of listening speed.Listening Time5 hrs and 13 minsVerbal Advantage Vocabulary Program Complete Edition – 24 CD’s (Success Edition AND Success Edition Advanced), c2005 Edition (Latest Edition) [UNABRIDGED]Audio CDPublisher: Verbal Advantage; VAC-24 edition (January 1, 2005)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1131987233ISBN-13: 978-1131987231Product Dimensions: 11.8 x 9.9 x 2.5 inchesShipping Weight: 3.6 poundsURL: https://www.amazon.com/Verbal-Advantage-Vocabulary-Program-Complete URL:http://verbaladvantage.com/programs/verbal-advantage-increas…Publisher’s SummaryThis is a graduated, comprehensive vocabulary-building program for adults who are serious about using the English language correctly and with confidence. Mr. Elster takes you on an edifying and entertaining tour of the language, coaching you all along the way on how to use words with greater clarity, precision, and style. This extraordinary audio course will help you avoid common errors in pronunciation, spelling, grammar, and usage. Every key word is defined, spelled out, carefully pronounced and used in a sentence. You will never be caught in a blunder again. This comprehensive program is the single best way to expand your vocabulary and sharpen your command of the English language. Best of all, it’s on audio tapes or CDs. To benefit, all you have to do is listen!About the Author Charles Harrington Elster is a writer, broadcaster, and logophile — a lover of words.He is the author of the popular vocabulary-building program “Verbal Advantage” and its even more comprehensive companion program, “Word Workout,” which is available both in print and in audio, narrated by Charlie. His other books include “Tooth and Nail” and “Test of Time,” vocabulary-building novels for high school students preparing to take the college entrance exams; “There’s a Word for It,” a lighthearted look at unusual — and unusually useful — words; “What in the Word?” a salmagundi of word lore, wordplay, and advice on usage and pronunciation; “The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations,” now in its second edition, which the late William Safire of The New York Times hailed as “the best survey of the spoken field in years”; and “The Accidents of style: Good Advice on How Not to Write Badly,” which Constance Hale, author of “Sin and Syntax,” called “useful, nuanced — and funny, too.”Charlie was a consultant for “Garner’s Modern American Usage” and he is the pronunciation editor for “Black’s Law Dictionary.” He was a guest contributor to William Safire’s “On Language” column in The New York Times Magazine, and his articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, the San Diego Union-Tribune, and other publications.Charlie has also been talking about language on the radio since 1985. He has been interviewed on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation,” “Weekend Edition,” and “All Things Considered” and been a guest on hundreds of radio shows around the country. For five and a half years he cohosted a weekly public radio talk show on language called “A Way with Words.”Charlie was born in New York City in 1957 and earned his B.A. cum laude from Yale in 1981. He lives in San Diego with his wife and two daughters.Editorial ReviewsCharles Harrington Elster is a writer, broadcaster, and logophile—a lover of words. He is the author and narrator of the audio vocabulary-building program Verbal Advantage and the book by the same name. His other books include Tooth and Nail and Test of Time, vocabulary-building novels for high school students preparing to take the college entrance exams; There’s a Word for It, a lighthearted look at unusual—and unusually useful—words; and The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations, which William Safire of The New York Times hailed as “the best survey of the spoken field in years.” In November 2005 Harcourt will publish What in the Word? Wordplay, Word Lore, and Answers to Your Peskiest Questions About Language.