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Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy
I know it may be heresy here in ebook world, but I can only read "classic" authors: Dickens, Trollope, etc. as audiobooks (UNabridged, thankyouverymuch). I have no desire to read Chekov, but have liked his work onstage. I don't think Stendahl and Hugo would be of much interest, but I plan on listen to Balzac's Cousin Bette.
I'm not a fan of Hemingway, and have no intention of trying Cather nor Fitzgerald.
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I highly suggest listening to
The Canterbury Tales as an audiobook. It is my favorite classic, but the language is very archaic. But correctly pronounced, it is completely understandable. The spelling has changed a lot, but the spoken words not so much. It opened my eyes to how similar our modern lives are to the lives of the pilgrims on their fun journey. They acted just like us on vacation, with collecting souvenirs, telling tales in a group of people thrown together by circumstance, and the logistics of getting there with all of your necessities.
I have another book to recommend. It is an anthology of sea stories. It is an excellent and charming way to become acquainted with various authors of the classics. There is a story by Poe that I had never heard of about being on a boat and falling into a whirlpool, very eerie. Let me see if I can find the link to it, and I'll come back and post it.
EDIT: That was easy. It is the
Oxford Book of Sea Stories.
EDIT 2: That Poe story became the subject of a paper that I wrote about how the sea becomes a character in certain stories with emotions and motives to advance its own agenda. Also central to the paper was the sea in
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, one of my two favorite poems (both by Samuel Taylor Coleridge)