Letters From America
Rupert Brooke
Read by David Wales
"[Rupert Brooke] started in May 1913 on a journey to the United States, Canada, and the South Seas, from which he returned next year at the beginning of June. The first thirteen chapters of this book were written as letters to the Westminster Gazette. He would probably not have republished them in their present form, as he intended to write a longer book on his travels; but they are now printed with only the correction of a few evident slips." The listener interested in Brooke's work may want to skip over Henry James' "so affectionate and desperately unintelligible a preface" (Christopher Morley in Modern Essays) and listen to those four tracks later. (Tracks 2 - 5) ( Book's Prefatory Note and david wales) (4 hr 27 min)
Chapters
Prefatory Note | 1:13 | Read by David Wales |
Rupert Brooke by Henry James, Part 1 | 23:13 | Read by David Wales |
Rupert Brooke by Henry James, Part 2 | 16:33 | Read by David Wales |
Rupert Brooke by Henry James, Part 3 | 14:21 | Read by David Wales |
Rupert Brooke by Henry James, Part 4 | 10:49 | Read by David Wales |
Letter 1: Arrival | 10:52 | Read by David Wales |
Letter 2: New York | 14:18 | Read by David Wales |
Letter 3: New York (continued) | 14:02 | Read by David Wales |
Letter 4: Boston And Harvard | 14:34 | Read by David Wales |
Letter 5: Montreal And Ottawa | 12:58 | Read by David Wales |
Letter 6: Quebec And The Saguenay | 15:42 | Read by David Wales |
Letter 7: Ontario | 13:41 | Read by David Wales |
Letter 8: Niagara Falls | 13:56 | Read by David Wales |
Letter 9: To Winnipeg | 12:51 | Read by David Wales |
Letter 10: Outside | 13:31 | Read by David Wales |
Letter 11: The Prairies | 12:16 | Read by David Wales |
Letter 12: The Indians | 12:47 | Read by David Wales |
Letter 13: The Rockies | 13:48 | Read by David Wales |
Letter 14: Some Niggers | 14:48 | Read by David Wales |
An Unusual Young Man | 10:50 | Read by David Wales |
Reviews
Letter 14?
potuc
That part really shows how savage people were towards Blacks at the time... especially verbally