Length9h 1m
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Excerpt: "Wilford Heaton is not my real name, for why should I publish it to the world? The reason I do not give it is, first, because I have no desire to be made the object of idle curiosity or speculation, and secondly, although the explanation herein given will clear the honour of one of the most powerful of the Imperial Houses in Europe, I have no wish that my true name should be associated with it. I have, however, a reason for writing this narrative—a very strong reason. The story is an enthralling one; the adventures stranger, perhaps, than ever happened to any other living person. I have resolved to relate the plain unvarnished facts in their sequence, just as they occurred, without seeking to suppress or embellish, but to recount the strange adventures just as they are registered in the small leather portfolio, or secret dossier, which still, at this moment, reposes in the archives of a certain Ministry in one of the European capitals. There have recently been stories afloat—strange stories. At first I laughed at all the absurd rumours, but very quickly I saw how seriously distorted the real facts had become, for ingenious paragraphs of certain so-called Society papers, grasping the story eagerly, worked it up into a narrative which reflected very seriously upon the honour of one who is dearest in all the world to me. Well, my tale—or exposure—is written here. In order that those who read may clearly follow the curious chain of circumstances, it is necessary for me to go back some eight years or so—not a long period as far as time goes, but to me a veritable century. I was young, just turned twenty five. I was decently well-off, having come into an income of nearly a couple of thousand a year left me by my father, a sum which put me beyond the necessity of entering business, pursuing the daily grind, or troubling about the morrow. My career at Oxford had, I fear, been marked by a good many shortcomings and many youthful escapades, but I ended it by taking my degree of Bachelor of Medicine, shortly afterwards pursuing the fashionable habit of "going abroad." Within two years, however, I returned to London world-weary—like so many other young men who, being left comfortably off, commence to taste the enjoyment of life too early—and settled down in a suite of smoke-begrimed rooms in Essex Street, Strand."
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length9 hrs 1 min
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 7, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter One.
16Chapter Sixteen.
2Chapter Two.
17Chapter Seventeen.
3Chapter Three.
18Chapter Eighteen.
4Chapter Four.
19Chapter Nineteen.
5Chapter Five.
20Chapter Twenty.
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6Chapter Six.
21Chapter Twenty One.
7Chapter Seven.
22Chapter Twenty Two.
8Chapter Eight.
23Chapter Twenty Three.
9Chapter Nine.
24Chapter Twenty Four.
10Chapter Ten.
25Chapter Twenty Five.
11Chapter Eleven.
26Chapter Twenty Six.
12Chapter Twelve.
27Chapter Twenty Seven.
13Chapter Thirteen.
28Chapter Twenty Eight.
14Chapter Fourteen.
29Chapter Twenty Nine.
15Chapter Fifteen.
30Chapter Thirty.
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