Volunteers outside the USA: Pearl Buck died in 1973. This person's work may still be protected by copyright in countries where copyright duration is determined by the author's death date. In Europe this is 70 years; in Canada it is 70 years for authors who died after 1971; and in Australia it is 70 years for authors who died after 1955.
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/68577/pg68577-images.htmlAs with Pearl Buck's most famous novel, The Good Earth, this book also describes peasant life in rural China only 150 years ago--from a woman's perspective. Life was gruelingly hard. The people were provincial, illiterate, mostly uneducated. And yet, this book captures the dignity, pleasures, hopes, fears and dreams shared among women despite their extreme poverty. Themes of male chauvinism, crime, lust, greed, injustice, governmental tyranny, gambling, abortion, etc., are all masterfully woven into the narrative of one unnamed mother's love, without a moment of preaching, in this poignantly beautiful story. (Summary by Michele Fry, BC and Soloist)
Target completion date: 2024-09-15
Prooflistening level: Special, please read along with the text and notate any discrepancies you consider significant. Crits/comments welcome.
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Magic Window:
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Genres for the project: Culture & Heritage Fiction
Keywords that describe the book: marriage, china, gambling, peasantry, motherhood, childbearing
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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.
For the first section, say:
For the second and subsequent sections, use the shortened intro:"The Mother, by Pearl S. Buck, first published in 1934. 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 Mother, Chapter 1"
End of recording:"Chapter #, Part # (as shown in the MW) of The Mother, by Pearl S. Buck. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain." [Optional: "Read by your name." "Chapter #, Part #(as shown in the MW.)"
Say:
For the final section of the book, add:"End of Chapter #, Part #." (Can leave off Part #2)
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end."End of The Mother, by Pearl S. Buck.", thanks for listening, etc.
Filename: themother_##_buck_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. themother_01_buck_128kb.mp3)
NOTE TO MC: I named my files "themother" to distinguish from the previous version whose files are named "mother".
Upload to the LibriVox Uploader: https://librivox.org/login/uploader
MC to select: KiltedDragon
Copy and paste the file link generated by the uploader into the relevant Listen URL field in the Section Compiler, enter the duration in the Notes field, and post in this thread to let your PL and MC know that you have uploaded a file. You may also post the file link in the thread.
