The Last Entry

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The Last Entry

by William Clark Russell

EN·~4 hours·12 chapters

Chapters

12 total
1

NOVELS, ETC., BY W. CLARK RUSSELL.

0:36
2

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS

1:30
3

THE LAST ENTRY

0:11
4

CHAPTER I. MR. AND MISS VANDERHOLT.

26:16
5

CHAPTER II. DOWN RIVER.

25:19
6

CHAPTER III. 'ALONG OF BILL.'

29:11
7

CHAPTER IV. CAPTAIN MARY LIND.

34:24
8

CHAPTER V. ON THE EVE.

25:03
9

CHAPTER VI. THE MURDERS.

27:30
10

CHAPTER VII. CAPTAIN PARRY.

27:35

Description

Set against the bustling backdrop of 1837 London, the tale opens in the elegant dining room of a prosperous merchant family, where father and daughter share a quiet breakfast. Their conversation drifts to a storied past at sea—a young man who fled a comfortable home, endured shipwrecks, and rose to become a colonial magnate. As the morning unfolds, a striking painting of a storm‑battered schooner hints at a lingering mystery that has haunted the family for years.

When a sudden summons pulls the daughter away from her genteel life, the narrative steers toward the unforgiving ocean that once shaped her father's destiny. Amid creaking decks and relentless waves, old loyalties and new dangers surface, promising mutiny, hidden motives, and a desperate fight for survival. Listeners are drawn into a vivid world of salt‑sprayed adventure, where each log entry may hold the key to a miraculous rescue that has become legend.

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Language

en

Duration

~4 hours (255K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2013-12-30

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

William Clark Russell

William Clark Russell

1844–1911

Best known for vivid nautical fiction, this English novelist drew on years in the Merchant Navy to bring storms, ships, and seafaring life to the page with unusual realism. His adventures at sea also fed a wider career that included stories, journalism, and historical writing.

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