[COMPLETE] The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Vol 9 - tg
Thank you!
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Dramatic Reading: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Folklore/legends: Arabian Nights Vol. 11
Play: Zeus the Tragedian
Readers needed:
Dramatic Reading: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Folklore/legends: Arabian Nights Vol. 11
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Thank you Helen!
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Readers needed:
Dramatic Reading: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Folklore/legends: Arabian Nights Vol. 11
Play: Zeus the Tragedian
Readers needed:
Dramatic Reading: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Folklore/legends: Arabian Nights Vol. 11
Play: Zeus the Tragedian
Sections 1 and 27 have been orphaned!
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Readers needed:
Dramatic Reading: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Folklore/legends: Arabian Nights Vol. 11
Play: Zeus the Tragedian
Readers needed:
Dramatic Reading: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Folklore/legends: Arabian Nights Vol. 11
Play: Zeus the Tragedian
Thanks Paul, section 1 is all yours
Foon - Real life is getting in the way of LV, will be slow until all is back on track, please bear with me!
Readers needed:
Dramatic Reading: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Folklore/legends: Arabian Nights Vol. 11
Play: Zeus the Tragedian
Readers needed:
Dramatic Reading: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Folklore/legends: Arabian Nights Vol. 11
Play: Zeus the Tragedian
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Thanks Paul! That was fast
It's in the MW for Helen to PL
It's in the MW for Helen to PL
Foon - Real life is getting in the way of LV, will be slow until all is back on track, please bear with me!
Readers needed:
Dramatic Reading: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Folklore/legends: Arabian Nights Vol. 11
Play: Zeus the Tragedian
Readers needed:
Dramatic Reading: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Folklore/legends: Arabian Nights Vol. 11
Play: Zeus the Tragedian
Not that I'm any great expert, but I found contextualising helped. Rather than being broken, the language is quite erudite but has a strange feel to it. I think Burton (writing in the mid 19th century) tried to give a historic feel to the Tales by using - what was to him - archaic language which leads to us having this odd portmanteau of Regency-ish English with a Victorian inflexion. To read my passages, I put myself in the shoes of a traveller around the turn of the 1800s telling his peers when he returned of the bizarre things that he had encountered. It doesn't help with all the unfamiliar wording (for example, I think the use of "an" as "if" is even older) but it helps you get your mind through a good chunk of it.
Cheers,
Paul
What Paul already said--it's not broken, it's oooooooold. Almost all books we read at LibriVox have old-fashioned language (after all, the books we record are at least 95 years old), but this one is an especially tricky one. It's not an easy read for any of us, I think. The only advice I have for you, is: take your time. I don't know how fast you usually speak, but for me (as a naturally fast speaker) it really helps to consciously slow myself down when I'm reading a difficult text.
Foon - Real life is getting in the way of LV, will be slow until all is back on track, please bear with me!
Readers needed:
Dramatic Reading: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Folklore/legends: Arabian Nights Vol. 11
Play: Zeus the Tragedian
Readers needed:
Dramatic Reading: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Folklore/legends: Arabian Nights Vol. 11
Play: Zeus the Tragedian
Helen, I've posted section 27 in the MW for PL!
Foon - Real life is getting in the way of LV, will be slow until all is back on track, please bear with me!
Readers needed:
Dramatic Reading: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Folklore/legends: Arabian Nights Vol. 11
Play: Zeus the Tragedian
Readers needed:
Dramatic Reading: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Folklore/legends: Arabian Nights Vol. 11
Play: Zeus the Tragedian