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The Heirloom - Complete

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(3,833 Sterne; 3 Bewertungen)

It is not the pleasing office of the writer of fiction to unfold for the delectation of his readers the pages and pictures of the volume of life; and none know better than the true novelist that the wildest schemes which his imagination can conceive, the marvellous combinations which a turn of the magic kaleidoscope of eventualities, and what we misname fortune, may produce, are again and again out acted in real life.

With this apology the incidents of the following story are committed to the criticism of an indulgent, and the writer trusts, a not too severely critical world.

THE AUTHOR

"The hardiest spirit may well quail before the stupendous task of giving any accurate idea of what is, apparently, the first-fruits of Mr. Duthie-Lisle's imagination" (The Saturday Review Dec. 30, 1893)
"...obtrudes itself on almost every page as deficient in sense as of grammar" (The Academy Oct., 21, 1893)
"...this incredibly foolish book" (The Speaker Sept. 16, 1893)
"One of the missions of the literary critic is to warn off intending readers from books that are utterly worthless, and 'The Heirloom' comes within this category" (The Athenaeum Sept. 9, 1893). (0 hr 38 min)

Chapters

Preface

1:05

Read by Christopher Collins

Volume 1 Chapter 1: Dark Shadows

13:36

Read by Christopher Collins

Volume 1 Chapter 2: Vernwood

9:00

Read by Christopher Collins

Volume 1 Chapter 3: Memories Flown

15:05

Read by Christopher Collins

Volume 1 Chapter 4: Dark Days

14:36

Read by Ben Tucker

Volume 1 Chapter 5: Home

21:11

Read by lynnaea

Volume 1 Chapter 6: Love and Treasure

18:52

Read by David K. Ewen, M.Ed.

Volume 1 Chapter 7: Shadowing Gloom

21:00

Read by Andrei Florea

Volume 1 Chapter 8: The Broken Spell

19:56

Read by Andrei Florea

Volume 1 Chapter 9: A Spirit Desolate

19:03

Read by Andrei Florea

Volume 1 Chapter 10: Love's Labour Lost

13:49

Read by Andrei Florea

Volume 1 Chapter 11: Is He Mad?

21:21

Read by Andrei Florea

Volume 1 Chapter 12: The Pangs of Remorse

21:38

Read by Andrei Florea

Volume 1 Chapter 13: The Bloody Hand

25:55

Read by TriciaG

Volume 1 Chapter 14: The Finger of Scorn

27:27

Read by TriciaG

Volume 2 Chapter 1: The Shadow of Death

9:18

Read by Christopher Collins

Volume 2 Chapter 2: The Scales of Justice

12:12

Read by Christopher Collins

Volume 2 Chapter 3: In Another Land

22:59

Read by John

Volume 2 Chapter 4: The Ghostly Midnight Form

20:31

Read by Paul Hampton

Volume 2 Chapter 5: "Shadowing" a Ghost

24:16

Read by Paul Hampton

Volume 2 Chapter 6: A Dream of Gold

30:54

Read by Paul Hampton

Volume 2 Chapter 7: Light Athwart the Gloom

19:37

Read by Paul Hampton

Volume 2 Chapter 8: What "The World" Told

19:11

Read by Lorenzo Chamberlin

Volume 2 Chapter 9: Reading Between the Lines

17:16

Read by Andrew Gaunce

Volume 2 Chapter 10: "Captain West"

20:52

Read by littlemissclumsy

Volume 2 Chapter 11: The Grave: But Where's the Dead?

17:07

Read by Joe Bergin

Volume 2 Chapter 12: Blank

9:13

Read by ToddHW

Volume 2 Chapter 13: Only a Dog

43:32

Read by CalebSchroeder

Volume 3 Chapter 1: The Lost Heirloom

15:24

Read by TriciaG

Volume 3 Chapter 2: The Seal of the Dead

15:26

Read by TriciaG

Volume 3 Chapter 3: A Trap to Entrap a Sunbeam

20:52

Read by TriciaG

Volume 3 Chapter 4: What the Trapped Sunbeam Told

32:53

Read by TriciaG

Volume 3 Chapter 5: De Profundis

22:53

Read by TriciaG

Volume 3 Chapter 6: A Woman's Devotion

17:10

Read by BettyB

Volume 3 Chapter 7: More Light

27:03

Read by Paul Hampton

Volume 3 Chapter 8: Birds of a Feather Brought Together

20:31

Read by Paul Hampton

Volume 3 Chapter 9: St. Xavier's

39:18

Read by jpliao

Volume 3 Chapter 10: A Mother's Tears - At Last There is Rest

16:50

Read by Edgy

Bewertungen

Nice story, three times as long as necessary

(3 Sterne)

A good story inflated and inflated again. The author did themselves a disservice by writing such a pathetic and self defeating Preface. This was probably yet another of the many devices used to add more words. This said, many parts were enjoyable. As to the readers, unfortunately they are many. Most average, a couple awful and a couple more first class.