{"id":8128,"date":"2020-08-30T00:30:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T23:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=8128"},"modified":"2020-08-30T00:30:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T23:30:41","slug":"simon-fuge-in-free-audiobook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2020\/08\/30\/simon-fuge-in-free-audiobook\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Simon Fuge&#8221; in free audiobook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arnold Bennett&#8217;s masterpiece &#8220;The Death of Simon Fuge&#8221; is now available as a public-domain two-hour audiobook read by David Wales, in Librivox&#8217;s new release of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/librivox.org\/grim-smile-of-the-five-towns-by-arnold-bennett\/\">The Grim Smile Of The Five Towns<\/a><\/em>.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pretty good lively reading with some subdued attempt at dialogue characterisation, read by an older man with what is probably a New England American accent.  He goes at it rather fast, and is a little sibilant when heard on headphones. But the graphic equaliser and real-time speed-shifter of a good audio player (such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aimp.ru\/?do=download&amp;os=windows\">AIMP<\/a>) will fix that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Speed: 0.94 or 0.95.<\/p>\n<p>EQ settings to start tweaking from:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/fuge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/fuge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"547\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8129\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Sadly there&#8217;s not a single illustration for &#8220;Fuge&#8221; to be had, but this picture from North Staffordshire in circa 1902-03 gets pretty near to the three main male characters, with the visitor Mr. Loring being the one standing behind and with a pipe&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/simon-fuge-1907.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/simon-fuge-1907.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"861\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8134\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arnold Bennett&#8217;s masterpiece &#8220;The Death of Simon Fuge&#8221; is now available as a public-domain two-hour audiobook read by David Wales, in Librivox&#8217;s new release of The Grim Smile Of The Five Towns. It&#8217;s a pretty good lively reading with some subdued attempt at dialogue characterisation, read by an older man with what is probably a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}