Length18h 51m
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Excerpt: "During the year 1890 I had been formulating my first dim notion as to what it was I wanted to do in life. For two years and more I had been reading Eugene Field's "Sharps and Flats," a column he wrote daily for the Chicago Daily News, and through this, the various phases of life which he suggested in a humorous though at times romantic way, I was beginning to suspect, vaguely at first, that I wanted to write, possibly something like that. Nothing else that I had so far read—novels, plays, poems, histories—gave me quite the same feeling for constructive thought as did the matter of his daily notes, poems, and aphorisms, which were of Chicago principally, whereas nearly all others dealt with foreign scenes and people. But this comment on local life here and now, these trenchant bits on local street scenes, institutions, characters, functions, all moved me as nothing hitherto had. To me Chicago at this time seethed with a peculiarly human or realistic atmosphere. It is given to some cities, as to some lands, to suggest romance, and to me Chicago did that hourly. It sang, I thought, and in spite of what I deemed my various troubles—small enough as I now see them—I was singing with it. These seemingly drear neighborhoods through which I walked each day, doing collecting for an easy-payment furniture company, these ponderous regions of large homes where new-wealthy packers and manufacturers dwelt, these curiously foreign neighborhoods of almost all nationalities; and, lastly, that great downtown area, surrounded on two sides by the river, on the east by the lake, and on the south by railroad yards and stations, the whole set with these new tall buildings, the wonder of the western world, fascinated me. Chicago was so young, so blithe, so new, I thought. Florence in its best days must have been something like this to young Florentines, or Venice to the young Venetians."
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GenreBiography and Memoir
Length18 hrs 51 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 8, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I
39CHAPTER XL
2CHAPTER II
40CHAPTER XLI
3CHAPTER III
41CHAPTER XLII
4CHAPTER IV
42CHAPTER XLIII
5CHAPTER V
43CHAPTER XLIV
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6CHAPTER VI
44CHAPTER XLV
7CHAPTER VII
45CHAPTER XLVI
8CHAPTER VIII
46CHAPTER XLVII
9CHAPTER IX
47CHAPTER XLVIII
10CHAPTER X
48CHAPTER XLIX
11CHAPTER XI
49CHAPTER L
12CHAPTER XII
50CHAPTER LI
13CHAPTER XIII
51CHAPTER LII
14CHAPTER XIV
52CHAPTER LIII
15CHAPTER XV
53CHAPTER LIV
16CHAPTER XVI
54CHAPTER LV
17CHAPTER XVII
55CHAPTER LVI
18CHAPTER XVIII
56CHAPTER LVII
19CHAPTER XIX
57CHAPTER LVIII
20CHAPTER XX
58CHAPTER LIX
21CHAPTER XXI
59CHAPTER LX
22CHAPTER XXII
60CHAPTER LXI
23CHAPTER XXIII
61CHAPTER LXII
24CHAPTER XXIV
62CHAPTER LXIII
25CHAPTER XXV
63CHAPTER LXIV
26CHAPTER XXVI
64CHAPTER LXV
27CHAPTER XXVII
65CHAPTER LXVI
28CHAPTER XXVIII
66CHAPTER LXVII
29CHAPTER XXIX
67CHAPTER LXVIII
30CHAPTER XXX
68CHAPTER LXIX
31CHAPTER XXXI
69CHAPTER LXX
32CHAPTER XXXII
70CHAPTER LXXI
33CHAPTER XXXIII
71CHAPTER LXXII
34CHAPTER XXXIV
72CHAPTER LXXIII
35CHAPTER XXXV
73CHAPTER LXXIV
36CHAPTER XXXVI
74CHAPTER LXXV
37CHAPTER XXXVII
75CHAPTER LXXVI
38CHAPTER XXXIX
76CHAPTER LXXVII
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