August Heat by W F Harvey

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“I have only the vaguest recollection of where I went. The one thing of which I was fully conscious was the awful heat, that came up from the dusty asphalt pavement as an almost palpable wave. I longed for the thunder promised by the great banks of copper-coloured cloud that hung low over the western sky.”

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15 окт 2024

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Комментарии : 16

@binkie4940 2 года назад

Oooh! An excellent performance of this atmospheric story, thank you very much.

@GradKat 2 года назад

This is a fantastic story and you narrated it perfectly!

@rneustel388 Год назад

That’s such an ominous final sentence. Your mind just goes to that newly sharpened chisel.

@chrisnicholl6078 2 года назад

Absolutely fantastic Mr Crowest, thank you so much for sharing!

@MsGreyMouser 2 года назад

Thank you, most appreciated.

@northernlights8126 2 года назад

A wonderful story and perfect narration.You have a remarkable voice and the accents were faultless.You have a new subscriber here, hope your channel goes from strength to strength.

@bluegreenglue6565 2 года назад

Oh dear. Our poor artist has made an error accepting the stonecutter's hospitality. A leading tale, and well-read (as always). Thank you very much.

@thisisdavid2 2 года назад

another fantastic reading Sir, as always many thanks! :)

@ForestRogers Год назад

Excellent reading of this gem.

@tonyeden8381 2 года назад

An excellent story by an excellent artiste ❤️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@Toastyy_Moralz 2 года назад

reading this book for school and the narration made it so much more interesting!

@GhostsByRC 2 года назад

Thank you! I’m really glad if I’ve been able to help.

@rosiemcnaughton9933 2 года назад

I wasn't going to listen to this because I've read it a couple of times and heard it at least once, but I did listen...Very good story telling, as always. I listened as if I'd never heard it before! Thank you. Keep up the excellent work.

@runtsmeadow6797 8 месяцев назад

If his dates are Jan 1860 - Aug 1909, then he is 49, not 40 as he says at the start.

@GhostsByRC 8 месяцев назад

Well spotted. Harvey writes the year as "190-" both times it occurs, at the start of Withencroft's note, and on the headstone. Leaving some ambiguity about a date was not uncommon in novels and stories at one time - there are a number of online discussions about this. Narrating a date ending in a dash, though, is unsatisfying, and can sound like an error, so I chose to set it in 1909, the year before the story was published. I'd missed - as indeed Harvey himself must have done - that Withencroft stating his age and agreeing to the accuracy of one of the dates on the headstone (presumably the birth date, unless he has already gone mad), fixes the story as happening in 1900.

@runtsmeadow6797 8 месяцев назад

@@GhostsByRC Thank you. It's so anti-climactic to be right...