Les Chouans is one of the novels in Balzac's series La Comedie Humaine. Its ostensible focus is a historical military conflict, but it also follows the love affair between an aristocratic beauty with one of the rebels.
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Genres for the project: Action & Adventure Fiction
Keywords that describe the book: military conflict; love affair
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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):
"Section [number] of The Chouans. 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: "The Chouans, by Honoré de Balzac. Translated by Katherine Wormeley [Chapter/Part]"
For the second and all subsequent sections, you may optionally use the shortened form of this intro disclaimer:
[Section] of The Chouans by Honoré de Balzac. Translated by Katherine Wormeley This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
Say: [Chapter/Part]" [/i]
END of recording:
At the end of the section, say: "End of [Section]"
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 The Chouans, by Honoré de Balzac. Translated by Katherine Wormeley"
There should be ~5 seconds silence at the end of the recording.
Example filename chouans_##_balzac_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. chouans_01_balzac_128kb.mp3)
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edit: I started with 10 sections as I estimate it will take at least 10 hours to record this book. The birth and death years for the translator do not need to be mentioned at the beginning of each chapter. Let me know if any changes are needed. Anyone in mind as DPL?
Here is what it looks like. There are three major divisions, but they are not really chapters. So I have changed chapters to sections in the instructions. What I will end up doing (with your permission of course) is to record sections of no more than, but about, 40 minutes until I finish the book. I may just choose arbitrary titles, such as the last word of the section or my own conclusion. What do you think? I will not mind if you laugh at my various manipulations of the heading parts for this project. Jim
Other Balzac novels seem to be arbitrarily divided into Parts or Chapters and just numbered sequentially. Not unlike what you suggest but without prose titles. Or you could have three named chapters divided into numbered parts.
Thanks, Dave. I think you are saying it's a go. I did think about the chapter-parts thing but it seemed potentially more burdensome with the numbers escalating into the teens, etc. I may be exaggerating. We will see. I will be back in touch, of course. Jim
Ok. I think we will go with parts of a chapter. You identified the three as chapters so it makes sense. And I will use each of the three different titles once and Part 1 and thereafter use only Part and the appropriate number.