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1916: First Chapters Collection
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These are first chapters to books first published in 1916. Readers, following is a tentative list culled from Wikipedia's article on the yea…
Chapter 10
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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 10
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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 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…
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…
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…
Chapter 25
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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…
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 2 (part 2)
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…
Preface
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Harold Bell Wright
In When a Man's a Man
When a Man's a Man is a novel written by Harold Bell Wright, an author who was quite popular in the first decades of the 20th Century. This …
Chapter 14, Part 2
Read by T. Coffey
E. F. Benson
In David Blaize
Written during World War I but set before the war, David Blaize is a coming-of-age story set in an all-boys boarding school. We follow David…
THE PAPERS OF ANTHONY KAY-Part 1-Chapter 6
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Maurice Baring
In Overlooked
At a summer resort, a blind man, who has never written a thing, is prodded to pen a novel by his friend who insists that there is one novel …
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 IV Special Articles - Part Three
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Louis Melius
In The American Postal Service, Second Edition
The history of the postal service in the United States goes back to the colonial period, but was established more formally with the issuing …
Chapter 2
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…
Chapter X. The New Century
Read by Brize C
M. E. M. Davis
In Under Six Flags: The Story of Texas
A history of the of Texas from La Salle's Texas Settlement in 1685 to the dedication of the State Capitol building at Austin in 1888. - Summ…
Chapter 28. Together
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Robert W. Chambers
In The Dark Star
Ruhannah “Rue” Carew, who dreams of becoming an artist, has grown up listening to her father tell the story of how he came by a wooden box a…
V
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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 …