[New coproduction] The Blue Bird, by Maurice Maeterlinck and Georgette Leblanc

[Robin Whittleton]

My partner is interested in doing another coproduction (after Heidi) and has picked The Blue Bird by Maurice Maeterlinck and Georgette Leblanc. Gutenberg transcription is at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27991 and scans at https://archive.org/details/bluebirdforchild00lebl.

The original story was a play by Maeterlinck, but Leblanc turned it into a prose work, so we’ve credited both of them as authors. After getting it assembled it turned out that it was only 33k words, but it’s a children’s story and they’ve got no other coproductions that I could find, so I think it’s OK on its own.

The original title is The Blue Bird for Children but we made an editorial decision to go with just The Blue Bird which feels nicer. We also dropped the dedication and introduction as not particularly meaningful for the SE edition, so this is a straight ten chapter production.

Repo at https://github.com/robinwhittleton/maurice-maeterlinck_georgette-leblanc_the-blue-bird_alexander-teixeira-de-mattos , cover art yet to be decided.

-Robin

[Alex Cabal]

OK!

On 4/30/23 12:43 PM, Robin Whittleton wrote:
> My partner is interested in doing another coproduction (after /Heidi/)
> and has picked /The Blue Bird/ by Maurice Maeterlinck and Georgette

> Leblanc. Gutenberg transcription is at
> https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27991
> <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27991> and scans at
> https://archive.org/details/bluebirdforchild00lebl

> <https://archive.org/details/bluebirdforchild00lebl>.

>
> The original story was a play by Maeterlinck, but Leblanc turned it into
> a prose work, so we’ve credited both of them as authors. After getting
> it assembled it turned out that it was only 33k words, but it’s a
> children’s story and they’ve got no other coproductions that I could
> find, so I think it’s OK on its own.
>

> The original title is /The Blue Bird for Children/ but we made an
> editorial decision to go with just /The Blue Bird/ which feels nicer. We

> also dropped the dedication and introduction as not particularly
> meaningful for the SE edition, so this is a straight ten chapter production.
>
> Repo at

> https://github.com/robinwhittleton/maurice-maeterlinck_georgette-leblanc_the-blue-bird_alexander-teixeira-de-mattos <https://github.com/robinwhittleton/maurice-maeterlinck_georgette-leblanc_the-blue-bird_alexander-teixeira-de-mattos> , cover art yet to be decided.
>
> -Robin
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[Robin Whittleton]

Art checkin. We’re having real difficulty with this, so I wanted to check in on a candidate: a stage design of Schinkel’s. The major problem is that it’s an aquatint, not an oil. But everything else is pretty much as good as we’ve found. The scene relates to a chapter where the protagonists visit the kingdom of Night to look for the Blue Bird. The image is CC0 from Met.

Obviously if you’d rather have an oil then I’ll keep on looking.

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[Alex Cabal]

I think that looks oily enough. Thanks!

On 5/29/23 5:32 AM, Robin Whittleton wrote:
> Art checkin. We’re having real difficulty with this, so I wanted to
> check in on a candidate: a stage design of Schinkel’s

> <https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/359883>. The major

> problem is that it’s an aquatint, not an oil. But everything else is
> pretty much as good as we’ve found. The scene relates to a chapter where
> the protagonists visit the kingdom of Night to look for the Blue Bird.
> The image is CC0 from Met.
>
> Obviously if you’d rather have an oil then I’ll keep on looking.
>

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[Robin Whittleton]

OK, this is ready to go.

The only thing I’d query is that we don’t generate individual author pages for books with multiple authors. I.e. https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/karl-marx_friedrich-engels exists, but https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/karl-marx doesn’t. For other dual authorship works we’ve always mentioned the authors next to each other in the long description, but it doesn’t really make sense to do that here. I ended up just linking each reference to the same dual page. But I think it might be worth setting up individual author pages that contain both their single works and their dual-authored works too.

-Robin

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[Alex Cabal]

OK, looks very good. Pretty straightforward work. I've gone ahead and
released it.

Breaking down dual author works on the site would be a nice to have.
There's very few of them now so not really a priority though.

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[François Grandjean]

Great! It is good to see more Belgian literature on SE.