AudioFile Magazine’s Listeners’ Guide to Alice in Wonderland Features Free Audiobook Download

March 3, 2010 - PRLog -- Portland, ME - AudioFile, the magazine and Web site devoted to audiobooks, is offering a free download of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, courtesy of Blackstone Audio, as part of a Listeners’ Guide to Alice in Wonderland. http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/event/0310_landingpage.html

The Listeners’ Guide is an online multimedia event where visitors can listen to exclusive conversations with Alice narrators, read audiobook reviews and recommendations, and discover more online resources about Alice in Wonderland. Fans are also invited to discuss their favorite audiobook versions of Alice on AudioFile's Facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/audiofilemagazine.

Visitors can download and listen to Michael York reading Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland courtesy of Blackstone Audio. The Listeners’ Guide also features behind-the-scenes conversations with narrators Michael York and Jim Dale. Fans can also listen to a conversation with Gabrielle de Cuir, the audio producer of York’s reading of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and of the recently released audiobook, Alice I Have Been.

“The Tim Burton film starring Johnny Depp is generating so much interest in Alice in Wonderland, and we want fans to discover audiobook versions of Lewis Carroll’s classic,” said AudioFile editor Robin Whitten. “Some of audiobooks’ great narrators have given voice to the colorful array of characters in Alice’s adventures. Listeners have multiple opportunities to explore them through our event.

“One of the most unusual audio versions we discovered uses cutting-edge, synchronized text-to-speech technology,” Whitten notes. “The British Library created a virtual book with coordinated narration by actress Miriam Margolyes. Visitors can listen as they flip through a digital version of Lewis Carroll’s original handwritten, illustrated manuscript of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, as it was then called. This is just one of the cool features fans can discover through AudioFile’s Listeners’ Guide to Alice.”

The Listeners’ Guide to Alice in Wonderland is AudioFile’s latest celebration of the iconic writers and characters on audio. Recent Listeners’ Guides have focused on the audiobooks of Agatha Christie, Edgar Allan Poe, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, and Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. Sign up to receive AudioFile’s Listeners’ Guides via email at http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/enews_signup.html.

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