Length10h 29m
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Excerpt: "Night clad the imperial city in a black robe stitched with fire. The misty river rolled in from the sea through its illuminated bridges with the subdued swish of some great snake writhing its way through hoops of gold. Out in the fog-haunted region between the bridges the movement of the red and green-eyed steam-tugs, clutching invisible barges and dragging them away into the darkness, seemed like a shadow-show in which grotesque demons were hunting the souls of men. The two banks of the river offered a contrast full of significance. Along the left bank white lamps that slit the dusk with the hard, bright glare of diamonds were strung like beads at measured spaces apart. A broad, smooth-paven road rattled with the wheels of traffic, and the long bend of the river revealed a sweep of stately buildings representing the power and splendour of a great civilization. Education, law, science, government, police, had their homes side by side along that mighty façade, which thus became an entablature on which the characters of civilization were legibly impressed. Beside the ancient universities of the law stood the headquarters of the vast machinery for the teaching of the populace—that is to say, for the taming of successive generations of barbarians. The power of wealth was expressed in luxurious hotels and club-houses, in the mansion of the noble and the estate-office of the millionaire. The revenues of empire flowed in and out through the gates of one majestic pile; from another the guardians of the social order waged war against the restless ranks of crime. Last in place towered the huge palace of the imperial Legislature, supreme over all."
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Mystery and Thriller
Length10 hrs 29 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 29, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I WESTMINSTER BRIDGE
2CHAPTER II BIOGRAPHICAL
3CHAPTER III THE PRODIGAL SON
4CHAPTER IV A FAMILY COUNCIL
5CHAPTER V BEERS COOPERAGE
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6CHAPTER VI THE WHOLE DUTY OF WOMAN
7CHAPTER VII THE DECADENTS
8CHAPTER VIII A LEGITIMIST DEMONSTRATION
9CHAPTER IX MOLLY FINUCANE AT HOME
10CHAPTER X A SCIENTIFIC OPINION
11CHAPTER XI THE PRETENDER
12CHAPTER XII THE POWERS THAT BE
13CHAPTER XIII ROYAL PATRONAGE
14CHAPTER XIV VIRTUE TRIUMPHANT
15CHAPTER XV MAGIC CASEMENTS
16CHAPTER XVI NEW LAMPS FOR OLD
17CHAPTER XVII A SPOKE IN THE WHEEL
18CHAPTER XVIII THE LAST WORD OF SCIENCE
19CHAPTER XIX POETS’ CORNER
20CHAPTER XX LADY ALISTAIR
21CHAPTER XXI THE HOUSE OF CATILINE
22CHAPTER XXII HIGH TREASON
23CHAPTER XXIII A PERSONAL EXPLANATION
24AFTERWARDS
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