----- Original Message ----- From: "Rissal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "firoz pathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 6:09 AM Subject: Fw: Free audiobook of The Red Badge of Courage +accents+reading aloud
> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "BlindNews Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 7:59 PM > Subject: Free audiobook of The Red Badge of Courage +accents+reading aloud > > >> The Blind Bookworm Blog >> Friday, May 11, 2007 >> >> Free audiobook of The Red Badge of Courage +accents+reading aloud >> >> By Kestrell >> >> Audiobooks.org >> http://www.audiobooks.org >> >> is currently offering a free download of _The Red Badge of Courage_. It >> also has links to other audiobook resources on the Net, like >> >> BBC - Voices >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/#startcontent >> >> which is a Web site that maps and archives audio recordings of different >> slang and accents from around the UK, plus other fun items, like an >> article on how Vikings influenced the West Yorkshire accent. Yes, I >> really do think accents are this interesting and um, hot: Christopher >> Eccleston's accent in the first season Dr. Who was definitely one of the >> reasons I preferred his incarnation of the Doctor. >> >> Speaking of hot voices, I have been listening to a CD full of audio >> recordings of Orson Welles which I bought from EarthStation1.com >> http://www.earthstation1.com >> >> The CD includes a couple of hundred recordings, including the Mercury >> Theater radio plays, The Shadow and the Third Man performances, a >> conversation between Orson Welles and H. G. Wells, and Orson Welles doing >> odd bits like reading John Donne poems. That last is really electrifying, >> as Welles moves from a reading of one of the love sonnets to a very >> passionate reading of the sonnet that includes the line >> >> "Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; >> and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for >> thee." >> >> After googling for the poem, I realized that the beginning part is often >> abridged in poetry anthologies, because this part was only vaguely >> familiar to me: >> >> "all mankind is of one author and is one volume; when one man dies, one >> chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better >> language >> ; and every chapter must be so translated. God employs several >> translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by >> war, some by justice >> ; but God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all >> our scattered leaves >> again for that library where every book shall lie open to one another." >> >> You can read >> Meditation XVII here >> http://isu.indstate.edu/ilnprof/ENG451/ISLAND/text.html >> >> or listen to an audio bersion here >> http://www.global-language.com/devotion.html >> >> (Source URL below) >> >> http://kestrell.livejournal.com/350685.html >> >> -- >> BlindNews mailing list >> >> To contact a list moderator about a problem or to make a request, send a >> message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> The BlindNews list is archived at: http://GeoffAndWen.com/blind/ >> >> To address a message to all members of the list, send mail to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Access your subscription info at: >> http://blindprogramming.com/mailman/listinfo/blindnews_blindprogramming.com >> >> To unsubscribe via e-mail: send a message to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in >> either the subject or body of the message >> >> __________ NOD32 2266 (20070514) Information __________ >> >> This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. >> http://www.eset.com >> >> > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
