WORLD SOUNDSCAPE PROJECT
SOUND REFERENCES IN LITERATURE

59.

The thunder boomed out overhead and they could hear the rain rushing across the fields. In a moment it was drumming on the iron roof, with a deafening noise...

Alan Paton, Cry the Beloved Country, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1948, p. 244.

PLACE: South Africa

TIME: 20th century

 

60.

It was still raining, but lightly, and the valley was full of sound, of streams and rivers, all red with the blood of the earth.

Alan Paton, Cry the Beloved Country, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1948, p. 245.

PLACE: South Africa

TIME: 20th century


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