Lives & Memoirs
My First Book (Version 2)
Various
1894
8h 5m
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A collection in which noted authors recall the writing and publishing of their very first books, sharing the struggles, luck, and false starts of literary beginnings. Candid and charming, the pieces reveal how careers are born. A delightful gathering for anyone curious about the writing life and the making of famous writers.
Inside this audiobook
23 chapters
- 1Introduction by Jerome K. Jerome13m
- 2Ready-Money Mortiboy by Walter Besant18m
- 3The Family Scapegrace by James Payn17m
- 4The Wreck of the 'Grosvenor' by W. Clark20m
- 5Phisiological Aesthetics and Philistia by Grant Allen18m
- 6The Shadow of a Crime by Hall Caine33m
- 7The Social Kaleidoscope by George R. Sims21m
- 8Departmental Ditties by Rudyard Kipling10m
- 9Juvenilia by A. Conan Doyle16m
- 10The Trail of the Serpent by M.E. Braddon22m
- 11The House of Elmore by F.W. Robinson14m
- 12Dawn by H. Rider Haggard27m
- 13Hudson's Bay by R.M. Ballantyne15m
- 14The Premier and the Painter by I. Zangwill26m
- 15The Western Avernus by Morley Robinson19m
- 16A Life's Atonement by David Christie Murray21m
- 17A Romance of Two Worlds by Marie Corelli26m
- 18On the Stage and Off by Jerome K. Jerome31m
- 19Cavalry Life by 'John Strange Winter' (Mrs. Arthur Stannard)28m
- 20Californian Verse by Bret Harte18m
- 21Dead Man's Rock by 'Q'20m
- 22Undertones and Idylls and Legends of Inverburn by Robert Buchanan26m
- 23Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson26m
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