Our favorite books

Post by **Matusya** » December 7th, 2009, 4:14 am

Oh, I love audio books, "read" them with avidity.

And now, time is, like, a little more and listen less.

Post by **Serafima** » December 7th, 2009, 11:23 am

Matusya
You are so right. Where do you get audio books from? I found some on www.predanie.ru . I think audio book is an excellent alternative to TV and much more useful!

Post by **Matusya** » December 7th, 2009, 5:24 pm

A long time friend gave me some of these links to audiobooks and other resources:

http://abuki.info
http://akniga.com/akniga/Default.aspx
http://a-knigi.ru/index.php
http://anastasiaclub.ru/page.php?p=abooks_cat
http://audio.arjlover.net/audio
http://audiobook-32kbps.nnm.ru
http://audiobooks.ulitka.com
http://audioknigi-darom.ru
http://ayguokhuru.ru
http://bib.savok.net
http://byupce25.jino.ru/Download.html
http://ilf-i-petrov.ru/library.html
http://financepro.ru/?ref=591
http://lit.nnov.ru/?id=344
http://mp3-slovo.ru/rs.htm
http://rus-voice.net/cat
http://touching.ru/article/library/audio_library
http://www.audiobookz.ru/index.php
http://www.audiokniga.biz.ua/mp3
http://www.infanata.org/category/literature
http://www.mp3kniga.com/download.php
http://www.mp3-kniga.ru
http://www.mp3slovo.com
http://www.wzone.ru/books (17 страниц)
http://www.1001skazka.com/abook1.html (14 страниц)
Авторские аудиокниги:
http://sheba.spb.ru/audio.htm
Радиоспектакли:
http://sheba.spb.ru/radio.htm
http://www.mp3-kniga.ru/rtm.htm
Звуковой архив Малого театра:
http://www.maly.ru
Сайт «Аудио Театр»:
http://audiotheater.indeep.ru/index.html
http://audiotheater.indeep.ru/spekt.html
"The Mercury Theatre on the Air" – пьесы 30-х гг. в mp3:
http://www.mercurytheatre.info
Русская классическая литература в формате MP3

Post by **Serafima** » December 7th, 2009, 5:55 pm

Matusya
Wow!!! Thanks a lot!

Post by **Zolotce** » May 12th, 2010, 6:26 am

I would also like to tell you about the books I like to read: first of all is "Flavian" by f.A.Torik, and almost all books of J.Voznesenskaya and N.Blokhin.
Concerning the audi-books, I just started to listen them, and I liked it a lot.

Post by **John** » October 12th, 2010, 1:33 pm

Serafima,good afternoon!
I would like your topic,it is interesting,read books is one of my favorit pastimes.

But here i want to tell not about book,but about article abot St king Edward:
Edward the Confessor (Эдуард Исповедник) was half-Norman by birth. He had spent most of his life in Normandy; and he appointed Normans to important positions in the state (partly to balance the power of great English earls (графов) like Godwine of Wessex). England was already half 'Normanized' before the Norman Conquest of 1066.

Edward had no children, and as he died he recognized Harold, son of Godwine, as his heir (наследник). Across the Channel in Normandy, а loud protest was heard. According to Duke (герцог) William, Edward the Confessor had made the same promise to him; what was more, Harold had already accepted William's claim during а visit to Normandy two years before.

Such arguments are usually decided by force. William swept across the Channel with his army and landed near Hastings. Harold was in the north, where he had just defeated а Norse invasion, but he hurried south and, brave but foolish, offered battle. His men were tired and he would have done better to have starved the Normans out. Still, his position on а hill was а strong one, until the Normans, pretending to run away, lured (выманили) the English down the hill.

map of invasion

We know King William I as 'the Conqueror'. But he wanted no talk of conquest. Не had come, he told the English, to restore the good laws of King Edward and to uphold the constitution. All conquerors talk like that, and William was an expert politician as well as а good general. Yet he was probably sincere.

At first he moved gently, and tried to disturb Anglo-Saxon institutions as little as possible. England already possessed better government machinery than Normandy, so that was only sensible. But rebellions against the Normans provoked him into harsher action. In the north, his soldiers swept through the country like fire. Between York and Durham they left hardly а building standing.

Although Norman influence was strong in England before 1066, that date is still the most famous onе in English history, and the Conquest certainly did cause quite а number of great changes. For onе thing, it tied England more closely to Europe. William ruled Normandy as well as England, and for the next 500 years English kings also held land in France.

The Conquest caused sweeping changes among the leading land-holding families. There were Norman landlords before 1066, but most were Anglo-Saxon or Danish. Within twenty years, all William’s chief tenants (strictly speaking, no onе 'owned' land except the king) were Normans. As а sign of the change, stone castles rose threateningly at every strongpoint, and work was started on the great cathedrals in the cities. In the early stages of construction, the two types of building looked alike - а sign of the alliance in Norman England of the powers of Church and State.

Post by **KevinMcCabe** » September 4th, 2019, 1:40 pm

Russian Classic books are my favourite. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky is definitely a masterpiece. I even wrote a blog post about it.

Post by **MommyHairs** » February 1st, 2021, 3:12 am

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