![]() What made Scourby so great? People who try to describe it generally stutter through glowing adjectives and adverbs, concluding that it`s an intangible, indefinable quality. Scourby, a radio, film and stage actor, read 422 books for the Talking Books program of the American Foundation for the Blind, including Homer`s "Iliad," Tolstoy`s "War and Peace," Joyce`s "Ulysses," Faulkner`s "The Sound and the Fury" and the King James Version of the Bible.Īlthough Scourby considered Talking Books his most important work, he also made several recordings for Spoken Arts and Listening Library, and it`s well worth the purchase price to hear the master.įor Spoken Arts, he read Walt Whitman`s "Leaves of Grass", Edgar Allan Poe`s "The Pit and the Pendulum," and several titles in the Voices of History collection of famous speeches.įor Listening Library, Scourby read "The Great Gatsby and Other Stories," "The Stories of Ernest Hemingway" and some of the poems on "A Treasury of Great Poetry." He is heralded as having the greatest voice ever recorded. ![]() ![]() I have waited for years for something like this with the Alexander Scourby Bible and I LOVE IT!!! Perfect, Awesome! This Bble app is great, there is no noise and the voice quality is just great.įebruary 22, 1990|By Sandy Bauers, Knight-Ridder Newspapers.Īlexander Scourby is reputed to have been the world`s best audio-book narrator, bar none. Next To Scourby, Most Readers Are `Just Good` ![]()
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