One Way Out: A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America
By William Carleton
Length6h 21m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "My great-grandfather was killed in the Revolution; my grandfather fought in the War of 1812; my father sacrificed his health in the Civil War; but I, though born in New England, am the first of my family to emigrate to this country—the United States of America. That sounds like a riddle or a paradox. It isn't; it's a plain statement of fact. As a matter of convenience let me call myself Carleton. I've no desire to make public my life for the sake of notoriety. My only idea in writing these personal details is the hope that they may help some poor devil out of the same hole in which I found myself mired. They are of too sacred a nature to share except impersonally. Even behind the disguise of an assumed name I passed some mighty uncomfortable hours a few months ago when I [sketched out for a magazine and saw in cold print what I'm now going to give in full. It made me feel as though I had pulled down the walls of my house and was living my life open to the view of the street. For a man whose home means what it does to me, there's nothing pleasant about that."
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Fairy Tales and Folklore
Length6 hrs 21 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 15, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER IToC
11CHAPTER XIToC
2CHAPTER IIToC
12CHAPTER XIIToC
3CHAPTER IIIToC
13CHAPTER XIIIToC
4CHAPTER IVToC
14CHAPTER XIVToC
5CHAPTER VToC
15CHAPTER XVToC
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6CHAPTER VIToC
16CHAPTER XVIToC
7CHAPTER VIIToC
17CHAPTER XVIIToC
8CHAPTER VIIIToC
18CHAPTER XVIIIToC
9CHAPTER IXToC
19CHAPTER XIXToC
10CHAPTER XToC
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