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Short Stories I by F. Scott Fitzgerald (*1896 - † 1940)
F Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer and a contemporary of Virginia Woolf.

Fitzgerald is considered by many to be one of the twentieth century's greatest writers and "The Great Gatsby" is a 20th Century classic. The article on the book at Wikipedia notes that "the novel chronicles an era that Fitzgerald himself dubbed the 'Jazz Age.'
Following the shock and chaos of World War I, American society enjoyed unprecedented levels of prosperity during the 'roaring' 1920s as the economy soared. At the same time, Prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers and led to an increase in organized crime. Although Fitzgerald, like Nick Carraway in his novel, idolized the riches and glamour of the age, he was uncomfortable with the unrestrained materialism and lack of morality that went with it."...
(Summary by gutenberg.net.au)
Text source: http://gutenberg.net.au/pages/fitzgerald.html (please only read from this list!)

Reader: afinevoice

Prooflistener: LCaulkins

This used to be a colloborative project by crowwings, it is now a Solo project MC'ed by Viktor.

How to claim a chapter?
Choose a stort story that has no reader assigned or claimed yet. Look at the list below. Click on POSTREPLY at the bottom of this page to answer to this topic.

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At the beginning of each file please say:
[Section and section number] of Short Stories part 1 by F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This Legamus recording may be distributed and adapted freely for any purpose.
(if you wish: Read by **)
[Chapter title] [part #] - only if you had to split your story

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End of [Chapter title] [part #] - only if you had to split your story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"End of Short Stories part 1 by F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald. For more information or to volunteer, please visit Legamus.eu"

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Here is a list and word count of all the stories you might use.
You can find them all here:
http://gutenberg.net.au/pages/fitzgerald.html
Choose any you want, but make sure, that it is not already claimed ... check the Magic Window for that ...
Some stories need splitting into two parts, check the hints below.

If your recording takes over 65 minutes (slow reading might cause that) and the story is not split yet, then do so by yourself, but don't forget to tell us, so that we can adjust the magic window. THANKS!

WINTER DREAMS Metropolitan Magazine (December 1922) --- (ca. 8000 words)

DICE, BRASSKNUCKLES & GUITAR International (May 1923) --- (ca. 8600 words)
---- end at: ..."is to pretend you never saw no barber."
------ start second part at: "They were now at the south end of the village a.."

GRETCHEN'S FORTY WINKS Saturday Evening Post (15 March, 1924) --- (ca. 6600 words)

ABSOLUTION The American Mercury (June 1924) --- (ca. 5600 words)

RAGS MARTIN-JONES AND THE PRiNCE OF WALES McCall's (July 1924) --- (ca. 6300 words)

"THE SENSIBLE THING" Liberty (15 July, 1924) --- (ca. 5000 words)

THE BABY PARTY Hearst's International (February 1925) --- (ca. 4300 words)

LOVE IN THE NIGHT Saturday Evening Post (14 March, 1925) --- (ca. 6100 words)

THE RICH BOY Red Book (January and February 1926) --- (ca. 13 500 words)
---- end at: " ...into his hands and cry like a child."
------ start second part at: (chapter V ) In 1922 when Anson went abroad ...

JACOB'S LADDER Saturday Evening Post (20 August, 1927) --- (ca. 8800 words)
---- end at: " ... more sailing he disposed of it and went to California."
------ start second part at: "chapter IV
Jenny met him at the station, kissed him and clung to his arm ..."

A SHORT TRIP HOME Saturday Evening Post (17 December, 1927) --- (ca. 7700 words)

THE BOWL Saturday Evening Post (21 January, 1928) --- (ca. 9000 words)
---- end at: " ... who sat there with youth and hope and beauty in his arms."
------ start second part at: "Dolly's mother took a place on Ram's Point, Long Island,...."

MAGNETISM Saturday Evening Post (3 March, 1928) --- (ca. 8000 words)

SCANDAL DETECTIVES, THE Saturday Evening Post (28 April, 1928) --- (ca. 7000 words)

A NIGHT AT THE FAIR Saturday Evening Post (July 21, 1928) --- (ca. 6000 words)

BASIL: THE FRESHEST BOY Saturday Evening Post (28 July, 1928) --- (ca. 7900 words)

HE THINKS HE'S WONDERFUL Saturday Evening Post (29 September, 1928) --- (ca. 7000 words)

OUTSIDE THE CABINET-MAKER'S Century Magazine (December, 1928) --- (ca. 1500 words)

THE CAPTURED SHADOW Saturday Evening Post (29 December, 1928) --- (ca. 6900 words)

PERFECT LIFE, THE Saturday Evening Post (5 January, 1929) --- (ca. 8000 words)

FORGING AHEAD Saturday Evening Post (March 30, 1929) --- (ca. 6400 words)

BASIL AND CLEOPATRA Saturday Evening Post (27 April, 1929) --- (ca. 6800 words)

THE LAST OF THE BELLES Saturday Evening Post (2 March, 1929) --- (ca. 6000 words)

THE ROUGH CROSSING Saturday Evening Post (8 June, 1929) --- (ca. 6800 words)

MAJESTY Saturday Evening Post (13 July, 1929) --- (ca. 6800 words)

AT YOUR AGE Saturday Evening Post (17 August, 1929) --- (ca. 5400 words)

THE SWIMMERS Saturday Evening Post (19 October, 1929) --- (ca. 7100 words)

TWO WRONGS Saturday Evening Post (18 January, 1930) --- (ca. 7100 words)

FIRST BLOOD Saturday Evening Post (5 April, 1930) --- (ca. 6200 words)

A NICE QUIET PLACE Saturday Evening Post (31 May, 1930) --- (ca. 6700 words)

THE BRIDAL PARTY Saturday Evening Post (9 August, 1930) --- (ca. 6600 words)

JOSEPHINE: A WOMAN WITH A PAST Saturday Evening Post (6 September, 1930) --- (ca. 7000 words)

ONE TRIP ABROAD Saturday Evening Post (11 October, 1930) --- (ca. 8500 words)
---- end at: " ...forgot the incident until that afternoon."
------ start second part at: "They were twelve for luncheon: ...

THE HOTEL CHILD Saturday Evening Post (31 January, 1931) --- (ca. 7300 words)

BABYLON REVISITED Saturday Evening Post (21 February, 1931) --- (ca. 7300 words)

A NEW LEAF Saturday Evening Post (4 July, 1931) --- (ca. 4200 words)

EMOTIONAL BANKRUPTCY Saturday Evening Post (15 August, 1931) --- (ca. 6000 words)

A FREEZE-OUT Saturday Evening Post (19 December, 1931) --- (ca. 7800 words)

SIX OF ONE Redbook (February 1932) --- (ca. 5400 words)

FAMILY IN THE WIND Saturday Evening Post (4 June, 1932) --- (ca. 6800 words)

WHAT A HANDSOME PAIR! Saturday Evening Post (27 August, 1932) --- (ca. 7000 words)

CRAZY SUNDAY American Mercury (October 1932) --- (ca. 6500 words)

ONE INTERNE Saturday Evening Post (5 November, 1932) --- (ca. 6900 words)

MORE THAN JUST A HOUSE Saturday Evening Post (24 June, 1933) --- (ca. 6500 words)

FIEND, THE Esquire --- (ca. 2300 words)

NIGHT AT CHANCELLORSVILLE, THE Esquire (February 1935) --- (ca. 1700 words)

AFTERNOON OF AN AUTHOR Esquire (August 1936) --- (ca. 2100 words)

"I DIDN'T GET OVER" Esquire (October 1936) --- (ca. 2600 words)

AN ALCOHOLIC CASE Esquire (February 1937) --- (ca. 3000 words)

FINANCING FINNEGAN Esquire (January 1938) --- (ca. 3300 words)

DESIGN IN PLASTER Esquire (November 1939) --- (ca. 1950 words)

THE LOST DECADE Esquire (December 1939) --- (ca. 1500 words)

THREE HOURS BETWEEN PLANES Esquire (July 1941) ----- (ca. 2000 )

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Hello,
Can I read the story: "Three hours between planes" please?
Thanks!
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Yes of course you can, sorry lost track of this thread for a while!
I'll put you on the MW!

You get the section 01 ... happy recordings!
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Post by T Kaushik »

Hello!

I noticed that there has not been much activity for some time on this forum. The latest posts appear to be from 2014. I am interested in reading for some of the F. Scott Fitzgerald's Short Stories. Please let me know if this forum is still active and you are accepting readers' contributions.

Thank you!

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Post by Cori »

Good to have you joining us, T ... yes, the forum is still active, though rather quiet at the moment. And this particular project seems to have dropped off the radar a little, so I appreciate you posting to wake it up. :D

We'd be happy to accept contributions! Have you recorded at LibriVox or elsewhere, or is this a new venture?
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I’ll have a go. 3rd time lucky? :D
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We're rollin' Story 70 is posted. That's just how it worked out :D https://upload.legamus.eu/simple/files/ ... gerald.mp3
Still waiting to hear back from Lynette if she'll do the proof listening
Thanks,
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Ah well Chapter One's done - Winter Dreams - https://upload.legamus.eu/simple/files/ ... gerald.mp3 2 down and just 68 to go!
Lynette's not got back to me yet, I guess she could be on holiday or unwell. She'll let me know either way I'm sure. She likes a challenge.
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I feel I should point out that Chapter 2 which I'm currently narrating, contains "racist" language which is no longer deemed acceptable in this day and age. However that's what the story says so that's what I've read as I believe that's what we do. I don't know if we need to post an overall "trigger warning" about the Short Stories or whether that's 'taken as read' ;)
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Hello! Yes, I can certainly PL contributions to this project. I see it's not set up as a solo, so I'm not sure how I would access the MW to pull Adrian's recording from there. Or should I just pull them from his board posts and place all my findings there for somebody to put into the MW?

(sorry for the delay - entire house was insanely chaotic during a kitchen renovation and computer kept futzing out. seem to be almost normal again now!)
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afinevoice wrote: Sat 11. May 2024, 22:40 We're rollin' Story 70 is posted. That's just how it worked out :D https://upload.legamus.eu/simple/files/ ... gerald.mp3
Still waiting to hear back from Lynette if she'll do the proof listening
Section 01, "Winter Dreams," is PL OK :star:

(I can't mark the MW yet, so Adrian, why don't you toggle that one. :) Also - might want to put the section time in)
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Note for Section 70:

All is great, except the end has only 2 seconds of silence, if Legamus wants the 5-second ending. (time is not yet listed in the MW on this one, either) :)
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Hi, I have extended the length of section 70 and amended the time and here is the link https://upload.legamus.eu/simple/files/ ... gerald.mp3
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Hi, I checked the length of the endings of section 1 and 2 and have extended them to 5 seconds. I've added the timings as well and am hoping they are saved. Any problems, you know where to come :geek:
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afinevoice wrote: Fri 31. May 2024, 17:05 Hi, I have extended the length of section 70 and amended the time and here is the link https://upload.legamus.eu/simple/files/ ... gerald.mp3
OK, this is like that one file in Homage to Catalonia, where the MW link is still stuck on the old file, but this link here ^ has the corrected file that is PL OK once it's connected in the MW.

If you don't mind toggling 70 to "See PL Note" until we get help from Viktor fixing this, that would be great. :)

(I've pulled 02 and will give it attention today or tomorrow.)
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I pasted my link above into the MW. Is it the right file now?
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Post by Viktor »

I switched this thread to "solo" and moved it to Readers Found.

Lynette, I sent you the password for the MW.

In the MW, both the link and the duration are just free-form text fields. There is no automatism. If one updates the link but not the duration, then that's what you see.
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Thanks Viktor. If we have any more problems, we’ll get in touch 😊
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Section 2 is PL OK :star:

and Viktor's got me sorted for getting into the MW, so I've already toggled it :)
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