COMPLETE The Begum's Fortune by Jules Verne - dc

@craigdav1 -
The original published version of this book ends with 3 sections that make up an unrelated short story about the Mutineers on the Bounty. What do you think about ending this project with the conclusion and forking that short story off into a separate project? I'm happy to do it either way.

Kate

Post by **craigdav1** » October 29th, 2021, 7:11 am

As long as the last three chapters collectively are around 90m in length they can be done as a separate book. Otherwise they would have to go in one of our short story collections. It's your decision whether or not to separate them.

queenk8 · Post by **queenk8** » October 29th, 2021, 4:42 pm

craigdav1 wrote: ↑October 29th, 2021, 7:11 am As long as the last three chapters collectively are around 90m in length they can be done as a separate book. Otherwise they would have to go in one of our short story collections. It's your decision whether or not to separate them.

Thanks - this is very helpful. I did a quick word count, and there's not enough there to produce as a separate book. The 3 chapters together are less than an hour. My main concern is that the short story is "lost" being randomly tacked onto the novel. Lynnet has an open short story collection going here: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=89092, so let's do this:

Back out the Mutineers of the Bounty from this project - will need to remove the last 3 chapters and edit the description to remove the last line, which mentions the story. I don't think I have enough permissions to do that, so will need your help.

I'll record the Mutineers story and add it to Lynnet's collection as a single file.

That leaves just 3 chapters for The Begum's Fortune, so we should be wrapping up soon!

queenk8 · Post by **queenk8** » October 29th, 2021, 5:32 pm

Here's section 18:
https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/begumsfortune_18_verne_128kb.mp3
15:44

Post by **craigdav1** » October 29th, 2021, 5:49 pm

Back out the Mutineers of the Bounty from this project - will need to remove the last 3 chapters and edit the description to remove the last line, which mentions the story. I don't think I have enough permissions to do that, so will need your help.

Done.

queenk8 · Post by **queenk8** » October 29th, 2021, 7:29 pm

Thank you, kindly. You're the best.

queenk8 · Post by **queenk8** » October 30th, 2021, 5:57 pm

And here's the last two chapters!

https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/begumsfortune_19_verne_128kb.mp3
7:59
https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/begumsfortune_20_verne_128kb.mp3
2:20

jennlea · Post by **jennlea** » October 30th, 2021, 8:18 pm

The last 4 chapters are PL-OK

Thank you for having me as DPL for you again! I very much enjoyed listening to you read this