Ten Days that Shook the World
Audio With External Links Item Preview
Share or Embed This Item
- Publication date
- 2012-03-16
- Usage
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Topics
- LibriVox, audiobook, Bolshevik Revolution, history, Russia, Lenin, Kerensky, Socialism, USSR, Soviets
- Language
- English
LibriVox recording of Ten Days that Shook the World, by John Reed. Read by volunteer readers.
Ten Days that Shook the World (1919) is a book by American journalist and socialist John Reed about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 which Reed experienced firsthand. Reed followed many of the prominent Bolshevik leaders, especially Grigory Zinoviev and Karl Radek, closely during his time in Russia.
John Reed died in 1920, shortly after the book was finished, and he is one of the few Americans buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis in Moscow, a site normally reserved only for the most prominent Soviet leaders.
Max Eastman recalls a meeting with John Reed in the middle of Sheridan Square during the period of time when Reed isolated himself writing the book:
"...he wrote Ten Days that Shook the World - wrote it in another ten days and ten nights or little more. He was gaunt, unshaven, greasy-skinned, a stark sleepless half-crazy look on his slightly potato-like face - had come down after a night's work for a cup of coffee.
'Max, don't tell anybody where I am. I'm writing the Russian revolution in a book. I've got all the placards and papers up there in a little room and a Russian dictionary, and I'm working all day and all night. I haven't shut my eyes for thirty-six hours. I'll finish the whole thing in two weeks. And I've got a name for it too - Ten Days that Shook the World. Good-by, I've got to go get some coffee. Don't for God's sake tell anybody where I am!'
Do you wonder I emphasize his brains? Not so many feats can be found in American literature to surpass what he did there in those two or three weeks in that little room with those piled-up papers in a half-known tongue, piled clear up to the ceiling, and a small dog-eared dictionary, and a memory, and a determination to get it right, and a gorgeous imagination to paint it when he go it. But I wanted to comment on now was the unqualified, concentrated joy in his mad eyes that morning. He was doing what he was made to do, writing a great book. And he had a name for it too - Ten Days that Shook the World!" (From Wikipedia)
For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.
For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org.
M4B audio book, part 1 (83mb)
M4B audio book, part 2 (75mb)
M4B audio book, part 3 (53mb)
Ten Days that Shook the World (1919) is a book by American journalist and socialist John Reed about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 which Reed experienced firsthand. Reed followed many of the prominent Bolshevik leaders, especially Grigory Zinoviev and Karl Radek, closely during his time in Russia.
John Reed died in 1920, shortly after the book was finished, and he is one of the few Americans buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis in Moscow, a site normally reserved only for the most prominent Soviet leaders.
Max Eastman recalls a meeting with John Reed in the middle of Sheridan Square during the period of time when Reed isolated himself writing the book:
"...he wrote Ten Days that Shook the World - wrote it in another ten days and ten nights or little more. He was gaunt, unshaven, greasy-skinned, a stark sleepless half-crazy look on his slightly potato-like face - had come down after a night's work for a cup of coffee.
'Max, don't tell anybody where I am. I'm writing the Russian revolution in a book. I've got all the placards and papers up there in a little room and a Russian dictionary, and I'm working all day and all night. I haven't shut my eyes for thirty-six hours. I'll finish the whole thing in two weeks. And I've got a name for it too - Ten Days that Shook the World. Good-by, I've got to go get some coffee. Don't for God's sake tell anybody where I am!'
Do you wonder I emphasize his brains? Not so many feats can be found in American literature to surpass what he did there in those two or three weeks in that little room with those piled-up papers in a half-known tongue, piled clear up to the ceiling, and a small dog-eared dictionary, and a memory, and a determination to get it right, and a gorgeous imagination to paint it when he go it. But I wanted to comment on now was the unqualified, concentrated joy in his mad eyes that morning. He was doing what he was made to do, writing a great book. And he had a name for it too - Ten Days that Shook the World!" (From Wikipedia)
For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.
For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org.
M4B audio book, part 1 (83mb)
M4B audio book, part 2 (75mb)
M4B audio book, part 3 (53mb)
- Addeddate
- 2012-03-16 20:56:40
- Boxid
- OL100020301
- Call number
- 5671
- External-identifier
- urn:storj:bucket:jvrrslrv7u4ubxymktudgzt3hnpq:ten_days_1203_librivox
- External_metadata_update
- 2019-03-28T23:00:59Z
- Identifier
- ten_days_1203_librivox
- Ocr
- tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e
- Ocr_autonomous
- true
- Ocr_detected_lang
- en
- Ocr_detected_lang_conf
- 1.0000
- Ocr_detected_script
- Latin
- Ocr_detected_script_conf
- 1.0000
- Ocr_module_version
- 0.0.15
- Ocr_parameters
- -l eng+Latin
- Ppi
- 600
- Run time
- 14:42:02
- Taped by
- LibriVox
- Year
- 2012
comment
Reviews
Reviewer:
Thinkerly1
-
favoritefavorite -
June 14, 2022
Subject: The reader does not know Russian and has a weird sing-song style
Subject: The reader does not know Russian and has a weird sing-song style
Various names and words are mangled. I thought that I could put up with it, but the reader has a weird sing-song voice, ending most sentences not with a falling tone, but instead with a rising tone. I am going to abandon this reading and look for another one, with a different reader.
Reviewer:
librivoxbooks
-
-
September 2, 2018
Subject: Response to generalarchive
Subject: Response to generalarchive
LibriVox does not use computer generated voices. All readers are flesh-and-blood people.
Reviewer:
generalarchive
-
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite -
September 1, 2018
Subject: Thanks for the recording!
Subject: Thanks for the recording!
Thanks for recording this. I am wondering where the computer-generated voice for the appendices and other chapters is from? It is very good. I wonder if it could be used to re-record track 16, the Peasants Congress?
42,568 Views
16 Favorites
DOWNLOAD OPTIONS
128KBPS MP3
Uplevel BACK
33.7M
00 - Preface download
29.7M
01 - Background download
44.1M
12 - Victory download
28.5M
13 - Moscow download
64KBPS MP3
Uplevel BACK
16.9M
00 - Preface download
14.9M
01 - Background download
22.0M
12 - Victory download
14.2M
13 - Moscow download
IN COLLECTIONS
The LibriVox Free Audiobook Collection Audio Books & PoetryUploaded by librivoxbooks on