This project is looking for prooflisteners. A DPL (Dedicated Proof Listener) would be preferred, but until one is found, we need prooflistening for completed sections. They are marked in the Magic Window below as Ready for PL.The structure of this book is altogether unique, and has a charm of its own. It is not a continuous narrative, but the characters are made to introduce themselves, and to portray the persons and incidents of the story from their several points of view, in language and coloring peculiar to themselves. Together they form a thoroughly individualized group, presenting strong contrasts, such as a Puritan village might easily have furnished seventy-five or a hundred years ago. The aim of the book, if aim there be, is to exhibit the religious type of the period at once in its strength and in its tenderness, and to show the power which a well-disciplined and chastened spirit has to subdue at last a most worldly and selfish nature. This is embodied in Squire Woodford. But the character which particularly attracts attention is Keziah Millet, the good-hearted, outspoken, energetic housekeeper, battling her way through manifold temptations, and trying "to live consistent"; provoking one to laughter and to tears at the same moment by her droll speeches, "saying her say out" often in "words of unmeant bitterness," and yet unstinted in her devotion to the welfare of others — altogether a rare creature, something like Mrs. Poyser in her originality. We shall not forget her soon. The story abounds in that delicate humor which plays through all of Mrs. Prentiss's writings, and is thoroughly religious in tone. We regard it as one of her best books. (Summary by The New-York Evangelist: Thursday, December 13, 1877)
Please follow this link and post in the project thread if you can help with proof-listening (please don't reply to this post! click on the link below this line and respond there).
Project thread: viewtopic.php?t=104077
Text: https://archive.org/details/pemaquidstoryofo00prenrich/page/n9/mode/2up
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Level of PL: Standard
Please consider these points during proof-listening and comment on them as appropriate:
- Does the intro match the one specified in the first post of the project thread (below the Magic Window)?
- Are there any long silences or pauses that ought to be edited out? If so, note the time.
- Are there any stumbles or repeats that ought to be edited out? If so, note the words and the time.
- Is there excessive background noise, a constant hiss or buzz that detracts from the reading?
- Did you need to turn your volume up unusually high to listen to the recording? (Or did you find the recording too loud?)
- Are there 5 seconds of silence at the end of the file?
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