Tales and Novels — Volume 1

Tales and Novels — Volume 1

By Maria Edgeworth
Michael Caine
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Length17h 54m

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Excerpt: "PREFACE. It has been somewhere said by Johnson, that merely to invent a story is no small effort of the human understanding. How much more difficult is it to construct stories suited to the early years of youth, and, at the same time, conformable to the complicate relations of modern society—fictions, that shall display examples of virtue, without initiating the young reader into the ways of vice—narratives, written in a style level to his capacity, without tedious detail, or vulgar idiom! The author, sensible of these difficulties, solicits indulgence for such errors as have escaped her vigilance..."

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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length17 hrs 54 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 18, 2018
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1TALES AND NOVELS,
10CHAPTER II.
2PREFACE.
11CHAPTER III.
3FORESTER (pt. 1)
12CHAPTER IV.
4FORESTER (pt. 2)
13CHAPTER V.
5THE PRUSSIAN VASE
14THE GOOD FRENCH GOVERNESS (pt. 1)
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6THE GOOD AUNT (pt. 1)
15THE GOOD FRENCH GOVERNESS (pt. 2)
7THE GOOD AUNT (pt. 2)
16MADEMOISELLE PANACHE.
8ANGELINA; OR, L’AMIE INCONNUE.
17THE KNAPSACK
9CHAPTER I.

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