A Pirate of Parts

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A Pirate of Parts

by Richard Neville

EN·~4 hours·29 chapters

Chapters

29 total
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A Pirate of Parts - By RICHARD NEVILLE - NEW YORK The Neale Publishing Company 1913 - All rights reserved

11:01
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"BILL OF THE PLAY"

1:59
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A Pirate of Parts

0:01
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CHAPTER I - "Is all our company here?" - —Midsummer Night's Dream.

5:18
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CHAPTER II - "What stories I'll tell when my sojerin is o'er." - —Lever.

7:28
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CHAPTER III - "Come all ye warm-hearted countrymen, I pray you will draw near." - —Old Song.

7:49
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CHAPTER IV - "Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.... The wills above be done, but I would fain die a dry death." - —Tempest.

7:03
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CHAPTER V - "I would rather live in Bohemia than in any other land." - —John Boyle O'Reilly.

7:17
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CHAPTER VI - "What strange things we see and what queer things we do." - —'Tis English, You Know.

2:53
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CHAPTER VII - "He employs his fancy in his narrative and keeps his recollections for his wit." - —Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

12:06

Description

A wandering thespian with a shock of red hair, Handy lives for the footlights, slipping from Shakespeare to slapstick with equal gusto. He’s a jack‑of‑all‑trades—sailor, engineer, bartender, even a brass‑band player—yet his true talent is turning any circumstance into a stage. Good‑natured and perpetually laughing, he keeps his family close while chasing the next honest penny.

When a harsh summer leaves the acting guild penniless, Handy hatches a bold scheme: a traveling company that will sail the towns along Long Island Sound, bringing makeshift productions to hungry audiences. With his eclectic skills and boundless optimism, he gathers a motley crew, ready to improvise both comedy and survival. Listeners will find a heartfelt, breezy portrait of a man who truly believes the world is one grand performance.

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Language

en

Duration

~4 hours (279K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Mary Meehan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2008-09-14

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Richard Neville

Richard Neville

A leading voice of the 1960s counterculture, he helped turn Oz magazine into a bold, provocative force in Australia and Britain. His writing mixed satire, politics, and social criticism, and he later explored ideas about media, technology, and the future.

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