Mary Shelley’s Mathilda

My latest solo work is finished.  I post-processed Mathilda, by Mary Shelley, for Project Gutenberg (that is, smoothed the proofread pages into a single document, both plaintext and HTML) so was very familiar with it (and with Mary’s quirky spelling which I tried to keep intact in the final work.)  I actually started reading this about a year ago, and recorded the second half of it last month — but I really wasn’t happy with the shift in quality, since I’d upgraded my microphone in the intervening time, and learnt to be a bit more patient in reading speed.  So, here we go … a mournful tragedy:

http://librivox.org/mathilda-by-mary-shelley/

Two things to note — although this story is about an incestuous relationship, it’s not salacious.  If it were a musical, it’d be seriously Emo.  Or, my grandmother could have listened to it without her hair curling.  Second, anytime Mary writes “I will be brief”, you can be sure she’s about to be anything BUT brief.  The runtime is somehow only 4hrs, though.

Audio for Chapter 1: [audio:http://www.archive.org/download/mathilda_cs_librivox/mathilda_01_shelley_64kb.mp3]