Length20h 15m
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Excerpt: "PREFACE. Some author says, that a good book needs no apology; and, as a preface is usually an apology, a book enters into the world with a better grace without one. I, however, appeal to those readers who are not gluttons, but epicures, in literature, whether they do not wish to see the bill of fare? I appeal to monthly critics, whether a preface that gives a view of the pretensions of the writer is not a good thing? The author may overvalue his subject, and very naturally may overrate the manner in which it is treated; but still he will explain his views, and facilitate the useful and necessary art which the French call reading with the thumb. We call this hunting a book, a term certainly invented by a sportsman. I leave the reader to choose which he pleases, whilst I lay before him the contents and design of these volumes..."
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length20 hrs 15 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 18, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE.
26CHAPTER II.
2LAME JERVAS
27CHAPTER III.
3CHAPTER I.
28CHAPTER IV.
4CHAPTER II.
29CHAPTER V.
5CHAPTER III.
30MURAD THE UNLUCKY
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6CHAPTER IV.
31CHAPTER I.
7CHAPTER V.
32CHAPTER II.
8THE WILL
33CHAPTER III.
9CHAPTER I.
34THE MANUFACTURERS
10CHAPTER II.
35CHAPTER I.
11CHAPTER III.
36CHAPTER II.
12CHAPTER IV.
37THE CONTRAST
13THE LIMERICK GLOVES.
38CHAPTER I.
14CHAPTER I.
39CHAPTER II.
15CHAPTER II.
40CHAPTER III.
16OUT OF THE DEBT OUT OF DANGER
41CHAPTER IV.
17CHAPTER I.
42CHAPTER V.
18CHAPTER II.
43CHAPTER VI.
19CHAPTER III.
44THE GRATEFUL NEGRO.
20THE LOTTERY
45TO-MORROW
21CHAPTER I.
46CHAPTER I.
22CHAPTER II.
47CHAPTER II.
23CHAPTER III.
48CHAPTER III.
24ROSANNA.
49CHAPTER IV.
25CHAPTER I.
50CHAPTER V.
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