My First Book (Version 2)


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Have you ever wondered how your favorite author started on his or her writing career? Did they launch themselves wholeheartedly into literature? Did they slave away every evening after a hard day at the office? Did they devote their golden years to reflect on a life well-spent? Some faced rejection while others found almost instant success. In this volume, we learn from the authors themselves what launched their literary careers... Bret Harte, Arthur Conan Doyle, R.M. Ballantyne, H. Rider Haggard and many other favorites contributed their stories. - Summary by Lynne Thompson (8 hr 4 min)

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Introduction by Jerome K. Jerome 13:01 Gelesen von Jim Gallagher
Ready-Money Mortiboy by Walter Besant 18:04 Gelesen von Lynne T
The Family Scapegrace by James Payn 17:09 Gelesen von jenno
The Wreck of the 'Grosvenor' by W. Clark 20:04 Gelesen von John
Phisiological Aesthetics and Philistia by Grant Allen 17:53 Gelesen von Lynne T
The Shadow of a Crime by Hall Caine 32:57 Gelesen von jenno
The Social Kaleidoscope by George R. Sims 20:43 Gelesen von Lynne T
Departmental Ditties by Rudyard Kipling 10:02 Gelesen von Phil Schempf
Juvenilia by A. Conan Doyle 16:27 Gelesen von jenno
The Trail of the Serpent by M.E. Braddon 21:44 Gelesen von Kathleen Moore
The House of Elmore by F.W. Robinson 14:07 Gelesen von Kathleen Moore
Dawn by H. Rider Haggard 26:56 Gelesen von Kathleen Moore
Hudson's Bay by R.M. Ballantyne 15:10 Gelesen von Phil Schempf
The Premier and the Painter by I. Zangwill 25:31 Gelesen von Availle
The Western Avernus by Morley Robinson 18:58 Gelesen von jenno
A Life's Atonement by David Christie Murray 20:57 Gelesen von jenno
A Romance of Two Worlds by Marie Corelli 25:29 Gelesen von Lynne Handler
On the Stage and Off by Jerome K. Jerome 30:48 Gelesen von KevinS
Cavalry Life by 'John Strange Winter' (Mrs. Arthur Stannard) 28:14 Gelesen von Kathrine Engan
Californian Verse by Bret Harte 17:55 Gelesen von Scotty Smith
Dead Man's Rock by 'Q' 20:11 Gelesen von Chad Jackson
Undertones and Idylls and Legends of Inverburn by Robert Buchanan 26:25 Gelesen von Kathrine Engan
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 26:11 Gelesen von Elijah Fisher