COMPLETE - Short Story Collection Vol. 002 - SW/tc

thistlechick · Post by **thistlechick** » January 28th, 2006, 11:13 pm

All audio files can be found on our catalog page: http://librivox.org/short-story-collection-002/

Please select and record any short story (fiction) in the public domain. Ttry to stick to stories that run less than 60 minutes, but we're flexible. You are welcome to contribute as many as you wish. After 10 stories are submitted, I will collect them, catalog them, and upload them to archive.org.

Recording details:

File Name Format (lower case, with words separated by underscores):
story_title_author_lastname_readers_initials.mp3 (i.e. pigs_is_pigs_butler_blb.mp3)

ID3 Tag Formats:
Title/Name: Story Title (i.e. Pigs is Pigs)
Artist: Author Name (i.e. Ellis Parker Butler)
Album: Librivox Short Stories Vol. 002

File Format: 128kpbs, MP3

Please include in your recording the standard Librivox disclaimer and introduction:
- "This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, and to find out how you can volunteer, please visit: librivox.org.?
- If you wish, say: ?Read and recorded by [your name], [your podcast, blog etc, if you wish], [your city/state/country], [date]?
- ?[name of story], by [author?s name]"
- At the end, say: "End of [Name of Story]"

You may either post your completed files here in the forum or email them to me by clicking this link:
http://www.yousendit.com/?recipient=betsie@betsie.info

Please include the following with your file:
- Online Source of your story (i.e. link to story at Project Gutenberg or other)
- Running time of your file in the format hour/minute/second (i.e. 00:32:14)
- Your name as you would like it to appear on the catalog page.
- URL of your homepage if you have one you would like linked to your name on the catalog page.

Please check the Recording Notes thread before recording:
http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=106

If this is your first recording, you'll also find this useful:
http://librivox.org/about-recording/

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Completed stories may be previewed here until they are fully cataloged:
http://betsie.info/librivox/stories_002

Baby Tramp by Ambrose Bierce - 00:13:15
http://www.online-literature.com/bierce/1985/
Read by Peter Yearsley

The Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe - 00:32:43
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2148
Read by Don Morgan

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe - 00:15:42
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2148
Read by: Zach Weissmueller and Ryan Heuser

The Diamond Necklace by Guy de Maupassant - 00:19:25
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3080
Read by: Alice

Esme by Saki
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3688
Read by: Ianish

The Last Leaf by O. Henry (00:16:36)
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3707
Read by: Ted McElroy

The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
http://hca.gilead.org.il/li_match.html
Read by: Ted Hanley

Marjorie Daw by Thomas Aldrich
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1758
Read by: William Coon

The Toys of Peace by Saki - 00:11:31
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1477
Read by: Tae Jensen

Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne - 00:39:44
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/512
Performed by: Brian Roberg

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STORIES PENDING (multiple versions ok):
Angela : An Inverted Love Story by William Schwenk Gilbert (pattimac)
Artist of the Beautiful by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Highway61)
The Birthday of the Infanta by Oscar Wilde (Rana Raschid)
A Dog's Tale by Mark Twain (Eric Conover)
The Great French Duel by Mark Twain (oiketohn)
Leave it to Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse (laurap)
Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf (sadave)
Never Bet the Devil Your Head by Edgar Allen Poe (pdxjmorris)
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce (Highway61)
The Open Window by Saki (whalesong)
Signal-Man by Charles Dickens (Talented_Mr_Miller)
Sredni Vashtar by Saki (whalesong)
The Stranger by Katherine Mansfield (DonQ)
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter (kdevine)
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (arcticwoman)
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne (jmpcronin)

Want to read a story, but not sure where to begin? I've posted some suggestions here: http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5424#5424

Rymanes · Post by **Rymanes** » January 29th, 2006, 8:22 pm

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe - 00:15:42

Download: http://www.retronetworks.com/audio/cask_of_amontillado_poe_zw-rh.mp3
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2148
Performed by: Zach Weissmueller and Ryan Heuser
URL: www.retronetworks.com
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Just missed the cut.

Let me know if you have any suggestions. I might edit it a little more in a couple days, pending the opinion of my cohort. If I do I'll post here with a notice.

Thanks for being so awesome, Librivox.

thistlechick · Post by **thistlechick** » January 29th, 2006, 8:37 pm

No, Zach and Ryan, thank YOU for being awesome contributors to Librivox =)

I'm downloading it now. But let me know if you decide to edit your file further =)

Alys · Post by **Alys** » January 30th, 2006, 7:48 pm

I'd like to sign up for The Diamond Necklace by Guy de Maupassant. Although, I have to confess, I'm not entirely sure how to pronounce the author's name.

thistlechick · Post by **thistlechick** » January 30th, 2006, 8:17 pm

Hi Alys... Good choice... I also enjoy his stories.

here are a couple of links that have more formal pronunciation guides as well as audio:

http://www.bartleby.com/people/Maupassa.html
http://www.answers.com/topic/guy-de-maupassant

but here's my phonetic pronunciation:
gee (soft g as in gift) duh moe-pa-sont

Alys · Post by **Alys** » January 31st, 2006, 10:29 am

Another question (sorry!). The copy of the story on PG that I am using is part of a collection of short stories. My problem is that I am not sure who to give credit to for the translation. The PG data summary lists three different people, and the heading on the actual book page also says "and others" after the three specific names. No one is given specific credit as to which story belonged to which translator. Should I just mention them all? I suspect that that is the case, I just wanted to check first because I didn't want to make the introduction too long.

Thanks.

thistlechick · Post by **thistlechick** » January 31st, 2006, 10:41 am

Alys, there is no need to apologize for asking questions...

This is an odd little situation isn't it? ... I'm inclined to say: Don't even mention the translators since there are so many of them, we have no idea which one translated your specific story, and it's all in the public domain anyway

But, please use your best judgement (and if anyone else has comments on this, please let's hear them =)

Alys · Post by **Alys** » January 31st, 2006, 5:18 pm

I went with no reference to the translator. I actually recorded the names, and then played it back, but it was, as predicted, slightly ridiculous and got in the way of just starting the story.

I sent it to you via yousendit just now. I ended up sending it twice, actually. I realized after I sent it the first time that for some unknown reason there was suddenly a full minute of silence in the middle, that was definitly not there when I prooflistened. I'm not sure what happened to make the program spontaneously generate silence, but I've gone in and fixed it.

I tried my best to make it sound okay. I'm still new at this. There are a couple of places with plosive p's, but I couldn't figure out how to fix that other than just rerecording them. I did attempt that, but it sounded funny, since my voice for that one word was completely out of rhythm with the rest of the sentence.

Here is the link to the PG source I used: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3080

Run time: 19:25

My name: Alice

thistlechick · Post by **thistlechick** » January 31st, 2006, 6:31 pm

Alys, Sounds like a good decision to me =) I've received your files, but won't be able to have a listen until tomorrow. Thanks for the story!

thistlechick · Post by **thistlechick** » February 1st, 2006, 8:19 am

Alys, I had a proper listen to your story today... you did a great job with the voices (run, don't walk, over to the Anne of Avonlea project! http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1153)

You're right, there is a lot of popping p's... but it's not really a big deal... there are a couple of threads talking about ways to reduce this that might help you for future recordings:

http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=68
http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=230

The problems I have are with K and F sounds ... but have found that simply moving my headset mic slightly above my nose reduces this significantly...but I still haven't found a solution to my whistling S.

Nikki Mack · Post by **Nikki Mack** » February 2nd, 2006, 9:06 am

How would D.H.Lawrence's The Rocking Horse Winner sound to people? I love it! I have found it online so does that mean it's not copyright?

I have a feeling this will be the first of a million questions!

thistlechick · Post by **thistlechick** » February 2nd, 2006, 9:30 am

Nikki Mack wrote:How would D.H.Lawrence's The Rocking Horse Winner sound to people? I love it! I have found it online so does that mean it's not copyright?

I have a feeling this will be the first of a million questions!

I did a little bit of hunting around to find the copyright information on The Rocking Horse Winner ... it was originally published in 1926 in Harpers Bazaar magazine. The base rule for copyright in the United States is that it need be published prior to 1923... so at first glance this story does not qualify.

There are some more complicated rules, and I'll do some further research on this specific story to see if we can indeed include it in the LibriVox collection. Until I have a more definite answer, how about seeing if there is another story by this author that interests you. Here is a story collections by D.H. Lawrence that is in the public domain: England, My England http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8914

Your million questions are more than welcome here... if there is anything else with which we may help, please don't hesitate to ask =)

ChipDoc · Post by **ChipDoc** » February 2nd, 2006, 9:36 am

Sadly DH Lawrence's "The Rocking-Horse Winner" was first published in 1926 in Harper's Bazaar magazine. It has to have its publication date before 1923 in order to qualify as being in the public domain. I really wish we could use it... sigh.

But this doesn't mean that there aren't tons of other great projects out here. Hope to hear you in many of them!

thistlechick · Post by **thistlechick** » February 2nd, 2006, 10:04 am

alright... here's an update... I've looked up the copyright renewal for Harpers Bazaar, and they did indeed renew the copyright for the Jul 1926 issue of their magazine (in which Rocking-horse winner was published)... so that means it is not in the public domain.

Here is the documentation showing this copyright renewal:
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/cache/pdrn1954jj174.gif

Oh, well, better luck next time.

ianish · Post by **ianish** » February 2nd, 2006, 11:50 pm

Oops! Don't know where my last message got to ?? anyway, short story by Saki, Esme, posted on http://www.archive.org/details/SakiEsmefromChroniclesofClovis
hope that's all right.