The Story of a Bad Boy
Children's Adventure Book: Autobiographical NovelBy Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Length6h 12m
About this audiobook
Tom Bailey is born in the fictitious town of Rivermouth, New Hampshire, but moves to New Orleans with his family when he is still a baby. In his boyhood, his father wants him to be educated in the North and sent him back to school in Rivermouth to live with his grandfather, Captain Nutter. Tom becomes a member of a boys' club called the Centipedes and the boys become involved in a series of adventures. In one prank, the boys steal an old carriage and push it into a bonfire for the Fourth of July. During the winter, several boys build a snow fort on Slatter's Hill, inciting rival boys into a battle of snowballs. Later, Tom and three other boys combine their money to buy a boat named Dolphin and sneak away to an island. Tom also befriends a man nicknamed Sailor Ben. Revealed as the long-lost husband of Captain Nutter's Irish servant, Ben settles in Rivermouth in a boat-like cabin. Sailor Ben helps the boys fire off a series of old cannon at the pier, much to the confusion of the local townspeople. When his father's banking job fails, Tom is invited by an uncle to work in a counting-house in New York. "The Story of a Bad Boy" is an autobiographical novel by American writer Thomas Bailey Aldrich, fictionalizing his experiences as a boy in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The book is considered the first in the "bad boy" genre of literature, though the text's opening lines admit that he was "not such a very bad, but a pretty bad boy".
Audiobook details
GenreChildren's Literature
Length6 hrs 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 4, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter One—In Which I Introduce Myself
12Chapter Twelve—Winter at Rivermouth
2Chapter Two—In Which I Entertain Peculiar Views
13Chapter Thirteen—The Snow Fort on Slatter's Hill
3Chapter Three—On Board the Typhoon
14Chapter Fourteen—The Cruise of the Dolphin
4Chapter Four—Rivermouth
15Chapter Fifteen—An Old Acquaintance Turns Up
5Chapter Five—The Nutter House and the Nutter Family
16Chapter Sixteen—In Which Sailor Ben Spins a Yarn
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6Chapter Six—Lights and Shadows
17Chapter Seventeen—How We Astonished the Rivermouthians
7Chapter Seven—One Memorable Night
18Chapter Eighteen—A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go
8Chapter Eight—The Adventures of a Fourth
19Chapter Nineteen—I Become A Blighted Being
9Chapter Nine—I Become an R. M. C.
20Chapter Twenty—I Prove Myself To Be the Grandson of My Grandfather
10Chapter Ten—I Fight Conway
21Chapter Twenty-One—In Which I Leave Rivermouth
11Chapter Eleven—All About Gypsy
22Chapter Twenty-Two—Exeunt Omnes
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