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Length9h 47m
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Excerpt: "If Peter Menuit had never been born, it is extremely probable that this book would not have been written. Mr. Menuit, however, had nothing to do with the construction of the volume, and his controlling purpose perhaps was not to prepare the way for it. Peter Menuit was a Swede who in 1631 came sailing up the Delaware River in a queer old craft with bulging sides and with stem and stern high in the air. Moved by some mysterious impulse, he dropped his anchor near a certain verdant shore and landed. Standing there, he surveyed the lovely scene that lay before him in the woodland and the river, and then announced to his companions his determination to remain upon [Pg 26] that spot. He began to erect a town upon the bank that went sloping downward to the sandy beach, and his only claim to the immortality that has been allotted to him is that he created what is now New Castle. It would be pleasant, if it did not seem vain, to hope that New Castle will base its aspirations to enduring fame upon the circumstance that another humble personage came, two hundred years and more after Menuit's arrival, to live in it and to tell, in a homely but amiable fashion, the story of some of its good people, and to say something of a few of their peculiarities, perplexities and adventures."
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length9 hrs 47 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 11, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1DEDICATION.
14CHAPTER XII.
2PREFACE.
15CHAPTER XIII.
3CHAPTER I.
16CHAPTER XIV.
4CHAPTER II.
17CHAPTER XV.
5CHAPTER III.
18CHAPTER XVI.
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6CHAPTER IV.
19CHAPTER XVII.
7CHAPTER V.
20CHAPTER XVIII.
8CHAPTER VI.
21CHAPTER XIX.
9CHAPTER VII.
22CHAPTER XX.
10CHAPTER VIII.
23CHAPTER XXI.
11CHAPTER IX.
24CHAPTER XXII.
12CHAPTER X.
25CHAPTER XXIII.
13CHAPTER XI.
26CHAPTER XXIV.
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