The Duke of Stockbridge
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The Duke of Stockbridge

By Edward Bellamy
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Length11h 33m

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Excerpt: "Early one evening in the very last of August, 1786, only three years after the close of the Revolutionary war, a dozen or twenty men and boys, farmers and laborers, are gathered, according to custom, in the big barroom of Stockbridge tavern. The great open fireplace of course shows no cheery blaze of logs at this season, and the only light is the dim and yellow illumination diffused by two or three homemade tallow candles stuck about the bar, which runs along half of one side of the apartment. The dim glimmer of some pewter mugs standing on a shelf behind the bar is the only spot of reflected light in the room, whose time-stained, unpainted woodwork, dingy plastering, and low ceiling, thrown into shadows by the rude and massive crossbeams, seems capable of swallowing up without a sign ten times the illumination actually provided."

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GenreHistory
Length11 hrs 33 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 27, 2018
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Chapter First. The March of the Minute Men
15Chapter Fifteenth. What Happened After Meeting
2Chapter Second. Nine Years After
16Chapter Sixteenth. An Auction Sale and Its Consequences
3Chapter Third. The Tavern-Jail at Barrington
17Chapter Seventeenth. Plots and Counterplots
4Chapter Fourth. The People Ask Bread and Receive a Stone
18Chapter Eighteenth. Lex Talionis
5Chapter Fifth. That Means Rebellion!
19Chapter Nineteenth. Perez Gets His Title
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6Chapter Sixth. Perez Defines His Position
20Chapter Twentieth. Two Critical Interviews
7Chapter Seventh. The First Encounter
21Chapter Twenty-first. Husking
8Chapter Eighth. Great Goings on at Barrington
22Chapter Twenty-second. Brace of Proclamations
9Chapter Ninth. Judge Dwight's Signature
23Chapter Twenty-third. Snow-Bound
10Chapter Tenth. Great Goings at Barrington Continued
24Chapter Twenty-fourth. The Battle of West Stockbridge
11Chapter Eleventh. End of the Goings on at Barrington
25Chapter Twenty-fifth. A Game of Bluff
12Chapter Twelfth. A Fair Suppliant
26Chapter Twenty-sixth. The Restoration
13Chapter Thirteenth. A Praise Meeting
27Chapter Twenty-seventh. Some Real Fighting
14Chapter Fourteeth. Perez Goes to Meeting

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