"'What a fool I was not to go where she beckoned!' mused Caius. 'Where? Anywhere into the heart of the ocean, out of this dull, sordid life into the land of dreams.'
For it must all have been a dream—a sweet, fantastic dream, imposed upon his senses by some influence, outward or inward; but it seemed to him that at the hour when he seemed to see the maid it might have been given him to enter the world of dreams, and go on in some existence which was a truer reality than the one in which he now was. In a deliberate way he thought that perhaps, if the truth were known, he, Dr. Caius Simpson, was going a little mad; but as he sat by the softly lapping sea he did not regret this madness: what he did regret was that he must go home… " (Summary by L. Dougall, excerpt from the text)
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I've had a death in the family and won't be around Librivox much for the next while. I'll be back ... when I'm back. I appreciate your patience in the meanwhile. :)
I can't MC this I have too many others and 2 in the wings but we do not normally do one book of a 3 book novel when the total of the 3 is only about 7 hours reading, and a summary for a group project really does help you get readers unless it is a very well known book.
Can we leave it for a few days to see if someone volunteers to DPL, otherwise I will? And I'll get a better summary written by tonight - unable to find anything at all online so I'm going to have to give the book a quick read and come up with a summary myself, I guess. Thanks!
I've had a death in the family and won't be around Librivox much for the next while. I'll be back ... when I'm back. I appreciate your patience in the meanwhile. :)
I've had a death in the family and won't be around Librivox much for the next while. I'll be back ... when I'm back. I appreciate your patience in the meanwhile. :)
Updated the summary and sections in the MW. Let me know if I need to change the sections titles at all... Chose the formatting that seemed to make the most sense to me. Thanks.
I've had a death in the family and won't be around Librivox much for the next while. I'll be back ... when I'm back. I appreciate your patience in the meanwhile. :)
I'm sorry. I was getting ready to respond earlier and got yanked away from my computer (I am at work). It would probably be better to make it 01 - Book 1, Chapter 1 - The Bent Twig, etc. Also, please put a space on both sides of the hyphen marks as it works better when I go to catalog the project.
Barry My Recordings
Darn stuff! I have books to read!
I've had a death in the family and won't be around Librivox much for the next while. I'll be back ... when I'm back. I appreciate your patience in the meanwhile. :)
I've had a death in the family and won't be around Librivox much for the next while. I'll be back ... when I'm back. I appreciate your patience in the meanwhile. :)
A Level exams from 4th May to 30th June. I am around, just not as often. If I forget or miss anything, drop me a PM and I'll be on it like a wasp on honey!
I've had a death in the family and won't be around Librivox much for the next while. I'll be back ... when I'm back. I appreciate your patience in the meanwhile. :)
A Level exams from 4th May to 30th June. I am around, just not as often. If I forget or miss anything, drop me a PM and I'll be on it like a wasp on honey!
I've had a death in the family and won't be around Librivox much for the next while. I'll be back ... when I'm back. I appreciate your patience in the meanwhile. :)