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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…
I
Read by Lynne T
Rex Beach
In The Auction Block
In the early twentieth century, politics were a much simpler affair, and much could be accomplished by diplomacy and compromise. But even th…
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…
Introduction
Read by David Wales
Frank Norris
In The Third Circle
Sixteen short stories by the American novelist Benjamin Frank Norris Jr (1870-1902) who wrote predominantly in the naturalist genre. He liv…
Part 1, Chapter 2
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Rose Macaulay
In The Shadow Flies
The title of the original, British release of this novel was They Were Defeated, referring, among other matters, to the English Civil War, 1…
Chapter 2
Read by VfkaBT
Louis Joseph Vance
In Joan Thursday
Minor potboiler is a change of pace from the author of the Lone Wolf detective series. Tenement beauty (and wannabe stage-star) Joan Thursb…
One Way—and Another By Noble May
Read by redrun
Various
In Short Stories From Life
Life Magazine held a short story contest. Stories must be no more than 1500 words. Authors were paid for the number of words under that maxi…
III: April 1916
Read by KevinS
Geoffrey Bache Smith
In A Spring Harvest
G.B. Smith is best known for his close friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien, who would go on to write the fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings. He w…
I
Read by Scotty Smith
Ellis Parker Butler
In The Incubator Baby
Marjorie Fielding is born premature and spends her first months of life in an incubator. Her mother is a modern, broad-minded woman eschewin…
Part Two
Read by Peter Yearsley
Saki
In Reginald
A collection of humorous anecdotes centred on Reginald, a smug, self-centred and cynical young man, who never admits to being older than twe…
The Decadent
Read by Foon
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
In Poems of Progress and New Thought Pastels
This book contains 2 poetry bundles by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, containing many better- or lesser-known poems. The poems are recorded by a singl…
Chapters III and IV
Read by Verla Viera
Frank Tilton
In Sketch of the Great Fires in Wisconsin
The Peshtigo fire in Northeastern Wisconsin is the deadliest wildfire in recorded history, claiming somewhere between 1200 and 2500 lives. E…
Westward Ho
Read by Kurt
John Lomax
In Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
John Avery Lomax is a towering figure in the field of early American musicology and folklore. Through intensive field work, Lomax built up …
Homeward Bound
Read by David Wales
Clarence Hawkes
In Pep: The Story Of A Brave Dog
This 1922 adventure story for youth and dog lovers will delight anyone with just a little suspension of disbelief. Sentimental and anthropom…
Story 8 A Tradition Of Eighteen Hundred And Four
Read by David Wales
Thomas Hardy
In Life's Little Ironies; A Set Of Tales With Some Colloquial Sketches Entitled A …
Eighteen short stories by a master story teller. - Summary by david wales
Prologue
Read by Ben Adams
Sherwood Anderson
In The Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life In Tales and P…
“The Triumph of the Egg” is a collection of stories and poems by Sherwood Anderson. Abandoning the interconnected quality of his more famous…
July 19, 1885 - Notes From the Northwest
Read by Esther
The New York Times
In The Mounties in the News
A newspaper account of the activities in the Western Canada during the Riel Rebellion and some of the aftermath , articles dating from Augus…
Section IV
Read by Frédéric Surget
Various
In The Jade Flute
A collection of mindful ancient Chinese poetry by Li Po, Wan Ts’u, Mei Chang and other masters set in English prose by anonymous translators…
Preface
Read by Chuck Williamson
Harriet Martineau
In Illustrations of Political Economy, Volume 1
Hugely popular at their time of publication, Harriet Martineau’s Illustrations of Political Economy sought to turn the abstract principles o…
Onward
Read by Stephen Christie
L.
In The Dark Ages, and Other Poems
This is a volume of poetry by a poet only going by the initial "L.". The poems are veried in tone and subject, set in different pa…