My First Book (Version 2)

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Biography & Autobiography

Authors: Various In Year : 1894

Book Language: English

Audiobook: My First Book (Version 2)

Introduction by Jerome K. Jerome
Ready-Money Mortiboy by Walter Besant
The Family Scapegrace by James Payn
The Wreck of the 'Grosvenor' by W. Clark
Phisiological Aesthetics and Philistia by Grant Allen
The Shadow of a Crime by Hall Caine
The Social Kaleidoscope by George R. Sims
Departmental Ditties by Rudyard Kipling
Juvenilia by A. Conan Doyle
The Trail of the Serpent by M.E. Braddon
The House of Elmore by F.W. Robinson
Dawn by H. Rider Haggard
Hudson's Bay by R.M. Ballantyne
The Premier and the Painter by I. Zangwill
The Western Avernus by Morley Robinson
A Life's Atonement by David Christie Murray
A Romance of Two Worlds by Marie Corelli
On the Stage and Off by Jerome K. Jerome
Cavalry Life by 'John Strange Winter' (Mrs. Arthur Stannard)
Californian Verse by Bret Harte
Dead Man's Rock by 'Q'
Undertones and Idylls and Legends of Inverburn by Robert Buchanan
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

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