Strangers at Lisconnel is a sequel to Jane Barlow’s Irish Idylls. The locations and most of the characters are common to both. There is great humor and concomitantly a certain melancholy in most of these stories of the most rural of rural places in Ireland. Although of a higher social class than her characters, Our Jane seems to have a touch of softness in her heart for their utter simplicity, abject poverty and naiveté. From the following brief example of dialogue, can be seen that Ms Barlow could only have come to write these words after having heard them countless times in person: Mrs. Kilfoyle: "I declare, now, you'd whiles think things knew what you was manin' in your mind, and riz themselves up agin it a' purpose to prevint you, they happen that conthráry." Although Jane Barlow did not consider her poetry worthwhile, the rythmn and music of her prose is magical to the ear. (Summary by JCarson)
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Keywords that describe the book:
Stories of Irish peasantry in the 19th Century.
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It's your say - but I'm curious why ? It does confuse some of the listeners - I've answered 2 emails recently about missing chapters because "the book has say 21 chapters and there are only 12 files"
Like everything we do we will never please all of the people all of the time though
Section 1 is posted up yonder and we are off like a herd of turtles!!
I am picking the Yankees for last place in the American League, with the White Sox and Pirates in the World Series. You can etch it in stone!!
Anne:
I am a voracious listener of audio books. None none of the professionally recorded books I have listened to stop at chapters; they just keep reading for an hour or so, with no commercial interrutions during the entire book; not a single one. From the listener's perspective, the fewer the interruptions the better. Stopping every 10 minutes to announce the name of the book, author, producer etc would be maddening to me as a listener. And I am mad enough. Imagine loading 50 sections at 10 minutes apiece; poor Dave would have to give up his day job.
The Gutenberg link has only 15 chapters not 50 - that is what you are reading from I hope ? I just need to check, we have had some people read from non PD editions and we have had to remove them from the catalogue which was very sad, but I wouldn't have thought it was possible here. But as my Grandma said - better to be safe than sorry.
I am reading from the Gutenberg epub file, the link shown on my original posting.
The 50 chapters was a bit of hyperbole for this book but used to make a point. I have seen that and more here at Librivox with each about 10 minutes apiece. A listener does not need to be told the title, author, producer and even the reader's name over and over again, like advertising. Books today are listened to on MP3 devices, where there is an uninterrupted stream from the beginniing to the very end with no need for separate disks. This allows for a smooth even listening experience from beginning to end with no commerical interruptions, just an announcement at the beginning and one at the very end of the work. I have only listened to a single Librivox recording and the interruptions proved too great for a pleasureable listening experience. The dividing up of an audio file into any kind of fragmentation does not make sense with today's listening devices. Personally I think we should do away with all announcements in Librivox work except one at the beginning and one at the end of the work, just as professional recordings are done today. IMHO
JCarson
Last edited by JCarson on March 19th, 2013, 8:24 am, edited 1 time in total.
I thought the 50 was an example - but decided it was better to ask a dumb question than to ignore a possible disaster. I wasn't around at the beginning but I understood the disclaimer was a legal cover that had to be on every file. But I am not lawyer - and even less a USA lawyer. And what you are doing is fine be me.
