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Source text (please read only from this text!): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/295Five early short stories by Edith Wharton, American author of The House of Mirth. Includes “Kerfol,” “Mrs. Manstey's View,” “The Bolted Door,” “The Dilettante,” and “The House of the Dead Hand.”
With one possible exception (“The Dilettante”), these early stories are dark tales about ghosts (canine and human), dark deeds of the past and present and how they haunt their perpetrators and victims, and narrators/central characters with a fierce determination to pursue their hearts’ desires at all costs.
Even the one exception, which seems more like Wharton’s later tales of the complicated relationships between men and women, is haunted by the ghost of the past. (Summary by Winnifred Assmann)
Target completion date: 2024-04-30
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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:"Section # of The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Volume One. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org. Read by your name. The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Volume One, by Edith Wharton. Section Title."
End of recording:"Section # of The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, by Edith Wharton. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Section Title."
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For the final section of the book, add:"End of Section #."
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end."End of The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Volume One, by Edith Wharton."
Filename: earlyshortfictionvol1_##_wharton_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. earlyshortfictionvol1_01_wharton_128kb.mp3)
Upload to the LibriVox Uploader: https://librivox.org/login/uploader
MC to select: aradlaw
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.
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