Letters From America


Read by David Wales

(2.5 stars; 1 reviews)

"[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?


(2.5 stars)

That part really shows how savage people were towards Blacks at the time... especially verbally