Pay attention Moby Dick Learn in Its Entirety via Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton, John Waters, Stephen Fry & Extra

Symbol of Moby Dick via David Austen.

In 2013, Ply­mouth Uni­ver­si­ty kicked off Moby Dick The Giant Learn, promis­ing a complete audio­ebook of Her­guy Melville’s influ­en­tial nov­el, with well-known (and no longer so well-known) voic­es tak­ing on a chap­ter each and every. After we first wrote about it right here, most effective six chap­ters have been unveiled, however boast­ed actors like Til­da Swin­ton (learn­ing chap­ter one underneath), creator Nigel Williams, and poet and jour­nal­ist Musa Okwon­ga.

We’re satisfied to mention the challenge reached its suc­cess­ful con­clu­sion. And so they cer­tain­ly referred to as on an impres­sive ros­ter of celebri­ty learn­ers: Stephen Fry, Neil Ten­nant, Fiona Shaw, Will Self, Bene­dict Cum­ber­batch, Chi­na Miéville, Tony Kush­n­er, John Waters, Simon Cal­low, Sir David Atten­bor­ough, even for­mer High Min­is­ter David Cameron. Pulitzer Prize win­ning poet Mary Oliv­er fin­ish­es off the entire challenge, learn­ing the Epi­logue.

All 135 chap­ters are avail­ready to be lis­tened to for your brows­er, down­loaded on iTunes, or streamed on Sound­Cloud. How­ev­er, do test them out on-line, as each and every chap­ter comes with a murals each and every cre­at­ed via 135 con­tem­po­rary artists equivalent to Matthew Bar­ney, Oliv­er Clegg, and Matthew Bene­dict. (See David Austen’s paintings above.) The challenge is a mam­moth below­tak­ing befit­ting this kind of mon­u­males­tal ebook, and when you’ve nev­er learn it this simply could be methods to move.

Copies of Moby Dick can also be present in our col­lec­tion of Loose eBooks. Imply­whilst, this giant learn­ing can be added to our col­lec­tion of Loose Audio Books.

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