
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..."
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length20 hrs 15 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 18, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE.
27CHAPTER III.
2LAME JERVAS
28CHAPTER IV.
3CHAPTER I.
29CHAPTER V.
4CHAPTER II.
30MURAD THE UNLUCKY
5CHAPTER III.
31CHAPTER I.
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6CHAPTER IV.
32CHAPTER II.
7CHAPTER V.
33CHAPTER III.
8THE WILL
34THE MANUFACTURERS
9CHAPTER I.
35CHAPTER I.
10CHAPTER II.
36CHAPTER II.
11CHAPTER III.
37THE CONTRAST
12CHAPTER IV.
38CHAPTER I.
13THE LIMERICK GLOVES.
39CHAPTER II.
14CHAPTER I.
40CHAPTER III.
15CHAPTER II.
41CHAPTER IV.
16OUT OF THE DEBT OUT OF DANGER
42CHAPTER V.
17CHAPTER I.
43CHAPTER VI.
18CHAPTER II.
44THE GRATEFUL NEGRO.
19CHAPTER III.
45TO-MORROW
20THE LOTTERY
46CHAPTER I.
21CHAPTER I.
47CHAPTER II.
22CHAPTER II.
48CHAPTER III.
23CHAPTER III.
49CHAPTER IV.
24ROSANNA.
50CHAPTER V.
25CHAPTER I.
51CHAPTER VI.
26CHAPTER II.