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- February 20th, 2024, 12:15 pm
- Forum: Readers Wanted: Short Works (Poetry & Prose)
- Topic: [OPEN] Multilingual First Chapter Collection 012 - rap
- Replies: 19
- Views: 965
Re: [OPEN] Multilingual First Chapter Collection 012 - rap
And here's the first chapter of "The Book of the Cheese". First Edition compiled by Thomas Wilson Reid ("T.W. Reid" on the fly leaf). Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70991 Published 1908 (Fifth Edition) https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/fcc012_bookofcheese_reid_py...
- February 18th, 2024, 11:51 am
- Forum: Readers Wanted: Short Works (Poetry & Prose)
- Topic: [OPEN] Multilingual First Chapter Collection 012 - rap
- Replies: 19
- Views: 965
Re: [OPEN] Multilingual First Chapter Collection 012 - rap
Thanks, Rapunzelina; I must have taken the time from the sound file before I increased the tempo.
Peter
Peter
- February 18th, 2024, 6:39 am
- Forum: Readers Wanted: Short Works (Poetry & Prose)
- Topic: [OPEN] Multilingual First Chapter Collection 012 - rap
- Replies: 19
- Views: 965
Re: [OPEN] Multilingual First Chapter Collection 012 - rap
Here you go: Title: The Pauper, The Thief, and the Convict Published: 1865 Author: Thomas Archer (1830-1893, according to Gutenberg entry) No Wikipedia entry for the author To read along: https://www.victorianlondon.org/publications3/pauper.htm ... but I read from a copy that I downloaded from somew...
- February 15th, 2024, 1:51 am
- Forum: Going Solo
- Topic: [Solo] Music, by Ursula Creighton - tg
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1218
Re: Solo: Music
Well, according to the preface, she was "Mrs Creighton" when it was published in 1928!
Peter
Peter
- February 15th, 2024, 1:44 am
- Forum: Going Solo
- Topic: [SOLO] Wonderful London - Anonymous-ans
- Replies: 144
- Views: 9015
Re: [SOLO] Wonderful London - Anonymous-ans
Thanks, Laura; I agree about "household gods" and have edited it. And I've adjusted the volume. I must have forgotten to normalise ... another late night session!
Peter
Peter
- February 14th, 2024, 1:43 pm
- Forum: Going Solo
- Topic: [SOLO] Wonderful London - Anonymous-ans
- Replies: 144
- Views: 9015
Re: [SOLO] Wonderful London - Anonymous-ans
I agree; thanks for the PL, Laura.
I've uploaded Chapter 34. A difficult chapter to read, as it exposed a pattern of human behaviour that I detest.
'Home-wreckers' pdf pages 432-444 / text 405-417
Peter
I've uploaded Chapter 34. A difficult chapter to read, as it exposed a pattern of human behaviour that I detest.
'Home-wreckers' pdf pages 432-444 / text 405-417
Peter
- February 12th, 2024, 12:44 am
- Forum: Need Help? Got Advice?
- Topic: Am I allowed to constructively critique a reader?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 752
Re: Am I allowed to constructively critique a reader?
And when my "Life in a medieval city" was posted on youtube, here's part of one of the comment strings: gaiuscaligula2229 4 years ago You can tell the narrator doesn't know York. "Boot-ham-Bar" is pronounced "Boo-tham-Bar".. The L is silent in "Peasholme Green"...
- February 11th, 2024, 5:15 am
- Forum: Going Solo
- Topic: [SOLO] Wonderful London - Anonymous-ans
- Replies: 144
- Views: 9015
Re: [SOLO] Wonderful London - Anonymous-ans
Thanks, Laura. Here's Chapter 33: "Birds of a feather" - pdf pages 424-431 / text 397-404
I think the author must have been savaged by a chaffinch when he was a small child!
Peter
I think the author must have been savaged by a chaffinch when he was a small child!
Peter
- February 6th, 2024, 12:27 pm
- Forum: Going Solo
- Topic: [SOLO] Wonderful London - Anonymous-ans
- Replies: 144
- Views: 9015
Re: [SOLO] Wonderful London - Anonymous-ans
Thanks, Laura; Chapter 32 uploaded: "A beggar's confession" pdf pages 414-421 / text 389-396
More focussed!
Pete
More focussed!
Pete
- February 4th, 2024, 9:24 am
- Forum: Book Suggestions
- Topic: The Saint!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 490
The Saint!
Meet the Tiger - by Leslie Charteris
The first Saint novel! PD for USA readers.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72869
Peter
The first Saint novel! PD for USA readers.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72869
Peter
- February 3rd, 2024, 6:36 am
- Forum: Need Help? Got Advice?
- Topic: Pronunciation help: all languages
- Replies: 555
- Views: 133660
Re: Pronunciation help: all languages
I'm English; if I saw this mentioned, I would expect it to be pronounced TEVER-shawl.
... which, come to think of it, is half way between your two possibilities!
Peter
... which, come to think of it, is half way between your two possibilities!
Peter
- February 1st, 2024, 11:26 am
- Forum: Going Solo
- Topic: [SOLO] Wonderful London - Anonymous-ans
- Replies: 144
- Views: 9015
Re: [SOLO] Wonderful London - Anonymous-ans
I've uploaded chapter 31: A young vagabond's vacation pdf 407-413 / text 382-388
I think he's lost focus and is rambling again!
Peter
I think he's lost focus and is rambling again!
Peter
- January 31st, 2024, 11:39 pm
- Forum: Going Solo
- Topic: [SOLO] Wonderful London - Anonymous-ans
- Replies: 144
- Views: 9015
Re: [SOLO] Wonderful London - Anonymous-ans
That may be true, but I'm not sure; from the text of that chapter, the "vinegar Valentines" could be extremely vicious and unpleasant. It's odd that we don't seem to have an equivalent these days, although there are some cards on sale with fairly scatalogical humour. The article I gave a l...
- January 31st, 2024, 4:26 am
- Forum: Going Solo
- Topic: [SOLO] Wonderful London - Anonymous-ans
- Replies: 144
- Views: 9015
Re: [SOLO] Wonderful London - Anonymous-ans
Thanks, Laura. I'm certain that it's still difficult for first offenders to get out of that pattern of behaviour. Here's Chapter 30 - St. Valentine's shabby suit pdf 399-406 / text 374-381 ... revealing an aspect of Victorian life that I had never known about, the vicious Valentine card. I searched ...
- January 30th, 2024, 3:16 am
- Forum: Completed Projects
- Topic: [COMPLETE] Multilingual First Chapter Collection 011 - rap
- Replies: 55
- Views: 11672
Re: [OPEN] Multilingual First Chapter Collection 011 - rap
Here's another first story:
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/fcc011_grimtales_nesbit_py_128kb.mp3
(28.37)
Grim Tales, by Edith Nesbit
Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40321
Oddly, I think this is the first Nesbit piece in the First Chapter collections!
Peter
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/fcc011_grimtales_nesbit_py_128kb.mp3
(28.37)
Grim Tales, by Edith Nesbit
Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40321
Oddly, I think this is the first Nesbit piece in the First Chapter collections!
Peter