Left: Dickens reading to his daughters. Right: The Pickwick Papers
According to Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier, reading aloud was a common practice in the ancient world, the Middle A…
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October 11, 2017- July 25, 2014News, Reviews, and InterviewsHala Salah, the woman behind the only literature review to translate English works into Arabic, is embarking on a brand new venture: audiobooks for the bl…
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