Length10h 36m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "How that I, Robinson Crusoe, came to be wrecked with others of the ship's company on a Desert Island, all being lost save my unworthy self, hath in a precise manner been narrated by one D. Defoe in the book he saw fit to entitle with my name; but his ending is indifferent. For novels like Defoe's must have the Happy Ending, so styled. Yet is the truth often happier far than fiction. Being no hand to invent a tale, I am content to set down in this place events as I humbly took part in them. Let me declare, then, that here on my Desert Island I for long suffered great loneliness and consequent distress of soul. This went on many days. Howbeit, while sunk very low in my spiritual state and with expectation nearly gone, a huge ship passing near labored painfully with a storm by the mercy of God being compelled to throw overboard—or, as they say at sea, to jettison—the greater part of her cargo. And being thus lightened she stood away from the Island and went on her course safely. The same storm cast upon the shore the rich treasure wherewith she had been laden, so many wooden boxes or cases, packed tightly and well-lined, which for the most part were washed up undamaged and, within, scarcely dampened except it may be for an inch or two. Coming down to the shore the morning after I stood transfixed with astonishment at the sight of something lying on the sand. It was a book."
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Fantasy
Length10 hrs 36 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 30, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface Being a True Account of How a Priceless Cargo Was Delivered to a Desert Islander
2Portraits
31. The Knightliness of Philip Gibbs
42. The Trail Blazers
53. The Art of Melville Davisson Post
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64. Jeffery Farnol’s Gestes
75. Adults Please Skip[32]
86. The Twentieth Century Gothic of Aldous Huxley
97. In Every Home: A Chapter for Women
108. A Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim
119. G. Stanley Hall, Psychologist
1210. The Mode in New Fiction
1311. Cosmo Hamilton’s Unwritten History
1412. Lest They Forget
1513. That Literary Wanderer, E. V. Lucas
1614. American History in Fiction
1715. The Fireside Theatre
1816. A Reasonable View of Michael Arlen
1917. Palettes and Patterns in Prose and Poetry
2018. Coming!—Courtney Ryley Cooper—Coming!
2119. Edith Wharton’s Old New York
2220. Not Found Elsewhere
2321. Frank L. Packard Unlocks a Book
2422. All Creeds and None
2523. J. C. Snaith and George Gibbs
2624. Mary Johnston’s Adventure
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