COMPLETE The Right of Way by Gilbert Parker - ck

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The Right of Way by Gilbert Parker (1862 - 1932) .

This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on the catalog page: http://librivox.org/the-right-of-way-by-gilbert-parker/
Charley Steele is a successful and brilliant Canadian lawyer. He has a nagging wife, Kathleen, and a lazy brother-in- law, Billy. In spite of his success, he is disillusioned with his life, drinks too much, and is deeply troubled by his agnosticism which leads to trouble and confusion. When Billy embezzles money, Charley discovers the theft and sets out to make things right. Charley however, ends up in a waterfront saloon where he encounters a barroom brawl and becomes unconscious. Charley loses his memory and ends up in the Canadian Northwoods where he falls in love with a pretty postmistress, Rosalie. He finds he is perfectly content with his "new" life but when his memory returns, he is deeply disturbed by his past and ponders whether to return to his old life to make amends. Mystery, romance, and intrigue are interwoven throughout the novel. The Right of Way was made into movies in 1915, 1920, and 1931. (Summary by Tom Weiss)
  • Target completion date: 2012-May-31
  • Text source (only read from this text!): http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6249
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Whoever MC's this book, I have had time to go through and piece together the chapters. I will only need 19 sections.

Thanks
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Post by Carolin »

hi y2k, i can mc this for you. ill get you a magic window right away :)

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the magic window is up and running. i added mim@can as dpl.
i had a look at the text - please let me know if you end up needing more sections, it appears that if you cram those 63 chapters into 19 sections, the files might get awfully long. but thats of course up to you.

please let me know if you meant to include section 0 into these 19 or not, if not, ill add you another one as soon as you let me know :)

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Post by y2kdaddio »

Thanks Carolin. I originally had 63 sections but as I started to look at the text I found that some of the chapters are quite short. So, I broke each section into about 6,000 words. I think that should bring me out to the 40 to 50 minute per section range somewhere.

Section 00 is part of the sections and will be the introduction. It will be shorter than the rest but it appears it should be separate from the actual book text.

Look forward to working with you on this project.

Tom
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great, tom. now that we are all set, ill move us over to going solo :)

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Sections 00 and 01 uploaded
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And I am here to do the listening .... :D
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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@ 3:21

[[ Indifferent ]] as he seemed, seldom speaking to the prisoner, often looking out of the windows to the cool green trees far over on the hill, absorbed and unbusinesslike, yet judge and jury came to see, before the second day was done, that he had let no essential thing pass, that the questions he asked had either a pregnant aptness, opened up new avenues of deliberation, or were touched with mystery—seemed to have a longer reach {{ ****}} than the moment or the hour.

I hear Indeed and there is a repeat @ about 3:48 of [than that moment ]

@ 11:45

He had undertaken the defence of the prisoner because it was his duty as a lawyer to see that the law justified itself; that it satisfied every demand of proof to the last atom of certainty; that it met the final possibility of doubt with evidence perfect and inviolate if circumstantial, [[ and uncontradictory if eye-witness, if tell-tale incident, ]] were to furnish basis of proof.

Repeat here

@ 28:35
We were under the [[ lash ]] of fear.

I hear leash

@ 36:33
To [[ her ]] the verdict of the jury was not in favour of the prisoner at the bar—she did not think of him. It was in favour of Charley Steele.

I hear hear
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Intro is ok? Pretty ragged start, eh?
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Post by mim@can »

y2kdaddio wrote:Intro is ok? Pretty ragged start, eh?
The ontro is good to go! The rest looks like lots because of the long sentences! Seems like an interesting book!

Mim
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Section 01 corrected and uploaded.

Now (unfortunately) to some "real world" work :( Gotta pay the bills!
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Section 2 uploaded
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y2kdaddio wrote:Section 2 uploaded
Section 2
@ 7:40

Charley looked through his monocle at the crowd reflectively, his head held a little to one side [[ in a questioning sort of way, on his lips the ghost of a smile]] —not a reassuring smile.
Omitted part of sentence

@ 21:24
[[ Suddenly ]] he turned to the desk and opened a tin box.

I hear slowly
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y2kdaddio wrote:Section 01 corrected and uploaded.

Now (unfortunately) to some "real world" work :( Gotta pay the bills!
All okay!
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