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Boy: A Sketch

by Marie Corelli

EN·~7 hours·15 chapters

Chapters

15 total

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0:19

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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Duration

~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 novelist in her own day, she wrote melodramatic, spiritual stories that captivated huge audiences in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Her fame once rivaled — and sometimes surpassed — many of the literary names now better remembered.

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