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Source text (please read only from this text!): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64457A collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, some of which originally appeared in the Times Literary Supplement or the Dial, and others were originally published for the first time in this volume.
Excerpts from the New York Times Book Review of The Common Reader, May 31, 1925:
Anything that Virginia Woolf may have to say about letters is of more than ordinary interest, for her peculiar intelligence and informed attitude set her somewhat apart. She possesses the happy faculty simultaneously of enjoying and accepting the work of Daniel De Foe and James Joyce, of Joseph Addison and T.S. Eliot, of Jane Austen and Marcel Proust. …Because of the scheme of "The Common Reader," one must guess at times as to her precise position, for this volume of collected essays and reviews is not primarily a critical work. … Many of these essays are excellent examples of that type of writing which reveals the reactions, nuances, twisting and adventuring threads of thought and surmise which spring from the perusal and spiritual acquisition of other work. Mrs. Woolf, like a mirror, reflects back the colors of the minds which betray themselves in the pages of the books which she takes under consideration.
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Genres for the project: *Non-fiction/Essays & Short Works
Keywords that describe the book: essays, woolf, george eliot, austen, defoe, conrad, literary commentary
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LibriVox recording settings: mono (1 channel), 44100 Hz sample rate, 128 kbps constant bit rate MP3. See the Tech Specs
Intro to recording:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.
Say:
End of recording:"Section # of The Common Reader. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "The Common Reader, by Virginia Woolf. Section Title."
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If you are recording the final section of the book, add:"End of section #." [Optional, and if not stated in the intro: "Read by your name, city, date."]
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end."End of The Common Reader, by Virginia Woolf."
Filename: commonreader_##_woolf_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. commonreader_01_woolf_128kb.mp3)
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