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by Peter Why
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...
by Peter Why
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
by Peter Why
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...
by Peter Why
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
by Peter Why
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
by Peter Why
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
by Peter Why
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"...
by Peter Why
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
by Peter Why
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
by Peter Why
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
by Peter Why
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
by Peter Why
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
by Peter Why
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...
by Peter Why
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 ...
by Peter Why
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