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1916: First Chapters Collection
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Various
These are first chapters to books first published in 1916. Readers, following is a tentative list culled from Wikipedia's article on the yea…
A. D. Nineteen Hundred
Read by Stefan Von Blon
Madison Cawein
In The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol. 3
This is Volume 3: Nature Poems of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentucky. It's arranged in four sectio…
Chapter 10
Read by Bob R
Sherwood Anderson
In Poor White: a Novel
This is a story of the effect of industrialization on a small town and its people, around the beginning of the 20th Century. The lead charac…
Preface and Chapter 1
Read by Ryan Lohner
Robert Smith Surtees
In Ask Mamma: or The Richest Commoner In England
Considering that Billy Pringle, or Fine Billy, as his good-natured friends called him, was only an underbred chap, he was as good an imitati…
1934-08-03 - 138) To New York on the Twentieth Century Limited
1 OTR
In The Jack Benny Program
The Jack Benny Program, which starred no less than Jack Benny himself, was a comedy series than went on-air for more than 30 years in both r…
CHAPTER V
Read by Keren Smithies
Jerome K. Jerome
In All Roads Lead to Calvary
"All Roads Lead to Calvary is a 1919 novel by the British writer Jerome K. Jerome. It was one of the last works written by Jerome, bett…
I.III Dollars, Part 2
Read by Gpolum
John Dos Passos
In Manhattan Transfer
Manhattan Transfer is novel that follows several individuals and their overlapping stories in New York City from the Gilded Age to the Jazz …
Preface
Read by Peter Dann
George Borrow
In Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest
This unusual narrative by eccentric self-taught English linguist, traveller and one-time bible salesman George Borrow combines elements of a…
Chapter 2 (part 1)
Read by Paul Lawley-Jones
Robert Hugh Benson
In Initiation
A tale of all types of human pain (physical, spiritual, and psychological), this book teaches what it means to be truly human. An interestin…
Chapter 10
Read by Brize C
George Sand
In The Countess of Rudolstadt
This sequel to Consuelo picks up not long after the striking conclusion of the first novel. Consuelo is enjoying a brilliant singing career…
Preface
Read by Michelle Dyer
L. W. De Laurence
In The Illustrated Key to the Tarot
L.W. de Laurence, an occult and spiritual author and publisher, not only provides a history of the Tarot for fortune-telling purposes, but w…
Part 2 Chapters 1-2
Read by Celine Major
Ethel M. Dell
In Charles Rex
Excerpt: "Saltash was thoroughly cosmopolitan in his tastes; he liked amusement but he abhorred boredom. He was never really wicked unl…
Author's preface
Read by Peter Dann
Daniel Defoe
In Moll Flanders - Version 2
This warm and witty novel presents itself as the first person narration of an immensely likeable and resourceful woman who, born in the most…
Chapter 25
Read by Brize C
George Sand
In Consuelo
This roman à clef follows the musical adventures of Consuelo, a gifted singer under the tutelage of the composer Nicola Porpora. Afte…
Story of the Century - Pt 10
Various
In Superman page08
Old Time Radio Programs, The Adventures of Superman
Ch 3. The Beginning of the Nineteenth Century. Pt 1. The New Literature: The Kn…
Read by Bellona Times
William Simonds
In A Student's History of American Literature
Engaging history of American Lit from the 1600's up through the late 1890's. The author, who was a professor at Knox College, really put a …
Part 1 Chapters 1-2
Read by Celine Major
Ethel M. Dell
In The Hundredth Chance
In this prequel to "Charles Rex'' by Ethel M. Dell you will meet the aristocratic blackguard Lord Saltash for whom our distressed heroi…
Chapter 28 - Interim
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George Gissing
In New Grub Street
"The story deals with the literary world that Gissing himself had experienced. Its title refers to the London street, Grub Street, whic…
Chapter 1
Read by Bob R
Ida M. Tarbell
In The Rising of the Tide
The subtitle is "the story of Sabinsport", and the town is the major character. It is a small, Midwestern town in the USA, in 1914…
V
Read by Julie Jackson
Cecile Tormay and Cécile Tormay
In The Old House
On a snowy winter's evening, Christopher Ulwing returns to his home, known as The New House for the last thirty years. Settled between the …