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Thanks, Michele; I enjoyed reading it ... but not enough sewage and underground railway details for my taste!

Pete

Here you go:

Title: Neighbourhood
Author: Tickner Edwardes
Wikipedia entry for author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickner_Edwardes
Original publication date: 1911

https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/fcc012_neighbourhood_edwardes_py_128kb.mp3
(28.04)

Peter

Thanks, Rapunzelina; yes, I wonder how many people will be attracted by the flavour of the title! How precise is the phrase "First chapter"? I soloed a book a little while ago which was a semi-fictional account of life in a Sussex village. Each month had three short pieces, and there was a...

Thanks, Laura. It's been raining fairly persistently here recently, but at least the temperature is much milder than usual for February! I've uploaded Chapter 36: "The Sunday rag-fair in the city" - pdf pages 453-462 / text 426-433 Remember "The Book of the Cheese" that we talked...

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...

Thanks, Rapunzelina; I must have taken the time from the sound file before I increased the tempo.

Peter

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...

Well, according to the preface, she was "Mrs Creighton" when it was published in 1928!

Peter

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

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

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"...

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

Thanks, Laura; Chapter 32 uploaded: "A beggar's confession" pdf pages 414-421 / text 389-396

More focussed!

Pete

Meet the Tiger - by Leslie Charteris

The first Saint novel! PD for USA readers.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72869

Peter

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