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The Crowded Street on Project Gutenberg
Jul. 29th, 2022 06:14 pmHere it is!
The Crowded Street by Winifred Holtby, published in 1924, is about the society of suburban Hull in the early twentieth century and its treatment of a young woman who fails in what it sees as the ultimate purpose of a young woman's life—getting married. It is a very good book, taking a slow run-up to a resounding conclusion in minute and brilliant detail of setting and character, and it has one of the most satisfying endings of any book I've ever read.
When I submit the files for a new ebook, there are two steps that have to happen before it's available for download: first, the lovely processing volunteers at Project Gutenberg check the files, fix any mistakes they find and upload them, at which point they email me to let me know it's up; then the files actually have to finish uploading and appear on the website itself. Usually the first stage takes a day or two and the second a few hours, but this time it was the other way round: the processing team worked very fast and I got their email only a couple of hours after sending the files, but for mysterious reasons it's taken another day and a half for the book to materialise. Thus I have been impatiently bouncing up and down waiting to post this since Wednesday evening, but it's here now!
The Crowded Street by Winifred Holtby, published in 1924, is about the society of suburban Hull in the early twentieth century and its treatment of a young woman who fails in what it sees as the ultimate purpose of a young woman's life—getting married. It is a very good book, taking a slow run-up to a resounding conclusion in minute and brilliant detail of setting and character, and it has one of the most satisfying endings of any book I've ever read.
When I submit the files for a new ebook, there are two steps that have to happen before it's available for download: first, the lovely processing volunteers at Project Gutenberg check the files, fix any mistakes they find and upload them, at which point they email me to let me know it's up; then the files actually have to finish uploading and appear on the website itself. Usually the first stage takes a day or two and the second a few hours, but this time it was the other way round: the processing team worked very fast and I got their email only a couple of hours after sending the files, but for mysterious reasons it's taken another day and a half for the book to materialise. Thus I have been impatiently bouncing up and down waiting to post this since Wednesday evening, but it's here now!
