[COMPLETE] A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde-ans

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A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).

This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/a-house-of-pomegranates-by-oscar-wilde/https://librivox.org/
A House of Pomegranates (1891) is the title of the second collection of Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde. He is known to have said that these stories were "intended neither for the British child nor the British public" and he also said that his Fairy Tales were "partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy, and who find in simplicity a subtle strangeness".
The four Tales that this book contain are: "The Young King"; "The Birthday of the Infanta"; "The Fisherman and his Soul"; and "The Star-Child". The stories are about responsibility, love and doing what is right. ( Noel Badrian)
  • Text source (only read from this text!): https://archive.org/details/houseofpomegrana00wild
  • Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): standard



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    Genres for the project: Children's Fiction/Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

    Keywords that describe the book: Children's Stories, fairy stories

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  • The reader will record the following at the beginning and end of each file:
    No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording!
    START of recording (Intro):
    • "Chapter [number] of A House of Pomegranates. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
    • If you wish, say:
      "Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
    • Say:
      "A House of Pomegranates, by Oscar Wilde. [Chapter]"


    For the second and all subsequent sections, you may optionally use the shortened form of this intro disclaimer:
    • "Chapter [number] of A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
    • If you wish, say:
      "Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
    • Only if applicable, say:
      "[Chapter title]"
    END of recording:
    • At the end of the section, say:
      "End of [Chapter]"
    • If you wish, say:
      "Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
    • At the end of the book, say (in addition):
      "End of A House of Pomegranates, by Oscar Wilde. "

    There should be 5 seconds silence at the end of the recording, or 10 seconds for files longer than 30 minutes.
  • Example filename houseofpomegranates_##_wilde_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. houseofpomegranates_01_wilde_128kb.mp3)



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Last edited by NoelBadrian on August 18th, 2017, 1:00 pm, edited 3 times in total.
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Post by NoelBadrian »

Hi,
Sarah and Anne have kindly offered to DPL and MC this book for me.
Thanks to both :D
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Post by annise »

All set up , and off to going solo.

Anne
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Hello - reporting for duty!
(and subscribing to the thread :) )
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And off we go!
Section 1 is ready for PL.
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Hi,
In reading through the stories, Chapter 3 falls naturally into three sections so I have added another Section to the MW.
Also, Section 2 is ready for pl.
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Chapter 1 is PL OK!
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Post by smijen »

Chapter 2 has a couple of beeps at 2:31. Hopefully they can be edited out. Otherwise, PL OK.
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Post by NoelBadrian »

Hi Sarah,
My equipment (or more probably my hearing!) was not acute enough to hear those beeps, so I have re-recorded the sentences before and after. Hopefully that has caught it.
Thanks, Noel
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Hello,
I just realised that I made a mistake in the Intro -- Starting with Chapter xx instead of Section xx.
So I have corrected both sections 1 & 2 which may need a spot check.
Noel
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Hi,
Section 3 is ready for PL.
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Hello,
Section 4 is ready for PL.
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Post by smijen »

Hi Noel - I've been off-the-grid camping for a few days. Will get caught up this weekend!
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Post by smijen »

In both sections 3 and 4, around 0:13-0:18, you say "Chapter 3, The Birthday of the Infanta" (should of course be The Fisherman and His Soul). Otherwise these two are both PL OK.
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Post by smijen »

1 and 2 are PL OK.

I've just noticed that the file names are missing _128kb at the end. This is not the end of the world as Anne can fix it during cataloging and she probably will not want you to re-upload just for this, but be aware for next time. :)
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