This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/bill-doreens-married-life-by-c-j-dennis/
"Bill & Doreen's Married Life (from "Doreen")" is the sequel to "Bill & Doreen's Courtship" and "Bill & Doreen Get Hitched", the latter two being "Selections from 'The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke'". "Doreen" is a four-poem supplemental publication to the original book of "The Bloke".
"The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke" is a verse novel by Australian novelist and poet C. J. Dennis. The work was first published in book form in 1915 and sold over 60,000 copies in nine editions within the first year. A special pocket edition was even printed for the Australian soldiers in the trenches during the Great War.
"The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke" tells the story of Bill, a larrikin of the Little Lonsdale Street push, who is introduced to a young woman by the name of Doreen. The book chronicles their courtship and marriage, detailing Bill's transformation from a violence-prone gang member to a contented husband and father. (Wikipedia)
- Text source (only read from this text!): https://archive.org/stream/doreende00dennuoft#page/n1/mode/2up
- Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): standard
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Magic Window:
BC Admin
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Genres for the project: Poetry; Romance
Keywords that describe the book: humor, romance, humour, redemption, australian, australian poetry, verse novel
============================================ - 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 Bill & Doreen's Married Life (from "Doreen"). 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:
"Bill & Doreen's Married Life (from "Doreen"), by Clarence James Dennis. [Chapter]"
For the second and all subsequent sections, you may optionally use the shortened form of this intro disclaimer:- "Chapter [number] of Bill & Doreen's Married Life (from "Doreen") by Clarence James Dennis. 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]"
- 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 Bill & Doreen's Married Life (from "Doreen"), by Clarence James Dennis. "
There should be 5 seconds silence at the end of the recording, or 10 seconds for files longer than 30 minutes. - Example filename billdoreensmarriedlife_##_dennis_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. billdoreensmarriedlife_01_dennis_128kb.mp3)
- Example ID3 V2 tags
Artist: Clarence James Dennis
Title: ## - [Section title]
Album: Bill & Doreen's Married Life (from "Doreen")
Transfer of files (completed recordings)
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