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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Rating★★★★ 3.6 (13)
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GenreBiography and Memoir
Length18 hrs 51 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 8, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I
26CHAPTER XXVI
2CHAPTER II
27CHAPTER XXVII
3CHAPTER III
28CHAPTER XXVIII
4CHAPTER IV
29CHAPTER XXIX
5CHAPTER V
30CHAPTER XXX
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6CHAPTER VI
31CHAPTER XXXI
7CHAPTER VII
32CHAPTER XXXII
8CHAPTER VIII
33CHAPTER XXXIII
9CHAPTER IX
34CHAPTER XXXIV
10CHAPTER X
35CHAPTER XXXV
11CHAPTER XI
36CHAPTER XXXVI
12CHAPTER XII
37CHAPTER XXXVII
13CHAPTER XIII
38CHAPTER XXXIX
14CHAPTER XIV
39CHAPTER XL
15CHAPTER XV
40CHAPTER XLI
16CHAPTER XVI
41CHAPTER XLII
17CHAPTER XVII
42CHAPTER XLIII
18CHAPTER XVIII
43CHAPTER XLIV
19CHAPTER XIX
44CHAPTER XLV
20CHAPTER XX
45CHAPTER XLVI
21CHAPTER XXI
46CHAPTER XLVII
22CHAPTER XXII
47CHAPTER XLVIII
23CHAPTER XXIII
48CHAPTER XLIX
24CHAPTER XXIV
49CHAPTER L
25CHAPTER XXV
50CHAPTER LI
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