The novel titled in Russian "Дворянское Гнездо" (Dvoryanskoye Gnezdo, sometimes translated as Home of the Gentry, A Nest of the Gentlefolk, A Nest of the Gentry) is considered a sequel to "Rudin". It is the story of the protagonist Fyodor Ivanych Lavretsky, a son of a nobleman and a serf, brought up at his family's country estate home by a severe maiden aunt, often thought to be based on Turgenev's own mother, who was known for her cruelty. (Summary by tovarisch, based on Wikipedia article)
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Genres for the project: General Fiction/Published 1800 -1900
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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):
"Chapters [numbers] of A HOUSE OF GENTLEFOLK. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
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"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
Say: "A HOUSE OF GENTLEFOLK, by Ivan Turgenev. Translated by Constance Garnett[Chapter]"
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"Chapters [numbers] of A HOUSE OF GENTLEFOLK by Ivan Turgenev. Translated by Constance Garnett. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
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"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
Only if applicable, say: "[Chapter title]"
END of recording:
At the end of the section, say: "End of [Chapters]"
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Example filename houseofgentlefolk_##_turgenev_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. houseofgentlefolk_01_turgenev_128kb.mp3)
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Artist: Ivan Turgenev
Title: ## - [Section title]
Album: A HOUSE OF GENTLEFOLK
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Number of chapters: 45 plus an epilogue. I propose to combine some chapters to make sections reasonably timed and make epilogue separate, and that's why the intros are going to be "Chapters one and two of ..." and outro "End of chapters one and two". We can replace the intro with "Section #" and outro with "End of section #", if you think it better.
Total number of words: just over 62000, which hopefully makes a 10-12 hour book.
If I can get through a section a week (doable, I think), then I need about half a year to record it.
tovarisch
reality prompts me to scale down my reading, sorry to say to PLers: do correct my pronunciation please