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Boy: A Sketch

by Marie Corelli

EN·~7 hours·15 chapters

Chapters

15 total

0:15

BOY

0:25

BOY

0:00

CHAPTER I

32:36

CHAPTER II

22:43

CHAPTER III

26:34

CHAPTER IV

12:40

CHAPTER V

22:22

CHAPTER VI

1:40:24

CHAPTER VII

29:06

Description

A young boy’s world unfolds in a cramped, brightly lit kitchen where his tiny shoulders are braced against a wooden feeding‑chair, his spoon ticking like a drum

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~7 hours (451K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United Kingdom: Hutchinson & Co., 1900.

Credits

Tim Lindell, Chuck Greif 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

2022-01-06

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67113

Subjects

England -- Fiction South African War, 1899-1902 -- Fiction Dysfunctional families -- Fiction Young men -- Fiction Boys -- Fiction Soldiers -- Fiction Juvenile delinquents -- Fiction PR

About the author

Marie Corelli

1855–1924

A wildly popular Victorian novelist in her day, she wrote mystical, melodramatic stories that mixed romance, spirituality, and big ideas. Though critics often argued over her work, readers made her one of the era’s true bestsellers.

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