The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Russia to claim his inheritance and to find a place in healthy human society. The teeming St Petersburg community he enters is far from receptive to an innocent like himself, despite some early successes and relentless pursuit by grotesque fortune-hunters. His naive gaucheries give rise to extreme reactions among his new acquaintance, ranging from anguished protectiveness to mockery and contempt. But even before reaching the city, during the memorable train journey that opens the novel, he has encountered the demonic Rogozhin, the son of a wealthy merchant – who is in thrall to the equally doomed Nastasia Filippovna: beautiful, capricious and destructively neurotic, she joins with the two weirdly contrasted men in a spiraling dance of death… (Summary by Martin Geeson)
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Genres for the project:
fiction, literature
Keywords that describe the book:
Russian Literature, naivety, romance, Dostoyevsky
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)
"Chapter [number] of The Idiot (Part 03 and 04) . - 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]"
Say: " The Idiot (Part 03 and 04) , by Fyodor Dostoyevsky . Translated by Eva M. Martin [Chapter]"
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"Chapter [number] of The Idiot (Part 03 and 04) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky . Translated by Eva M. Martin This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
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End of recording
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idiot(part03and04)_##_dostoyevsky_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is your section number. (e.g. idiot(part03and04)_01_dostoyevsky_128kb.mp3)
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Title: ## - [Section title]
Artist: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Album: The Idiot (Part 03 and 04)
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I feel like I owe someone a huge apology for my long absence. Are you still there, Barry? I hope you haven't given up on me yet. And if you haven't, well bless you, man.
On Tagging:
I followed tradition with the last section from <a href="http://librivox.org/the-idiot-by-fyodor-dostoyevsky-part-01-and-02-translated-by-eva-m-martin/">Part 2</a>. The last section of Part 2 was tagged "28 – Part II, Chapter 12", and I thought that it would make sense that my first section would be tagged "29 – Part III, Chapter 1" and the next ones following suit - if that's alright.
I had not given up on you yet but just this morning was thinking about checking up on you.
I think we should start the first chapter with 01 instead of the 29. Those particular numbers are really related to the particular project, not the book(s) per say. So this would be section 01 of this project but Part 3, Chapter 1 of the entire series. That make sense?
Barry My Recordings
Darn stuff! I have books to read!
You don't need to re-upload just for that; I can fix those when I catalog the project. If there is something you need to re-upload for after they are PLed, you can fix it then.
Barry My Recordings
Darn stuff! I have books to read!
If you need any encouragement, then know that I, for one, am looking foirward to your completing this project for I have listened to parts 1&2 with great pleasure and wish to continue listening...
Please note that I have changed the first post to show that we are now using the new uploader and that it has a different password than the old one. Also note that we should start adding _128kb to the end of the file names when you save them; if you forget, don't worry about it as I can easily fix them at cataloging time.
Barry My Recordings
Darn stuff! I have books to read!