My First Book (Version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

My First Book (Version 2), credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of My First Book (Version 2) by Various. Read in English by Jim Gallagher; Lynne T; jenno; John; Phil Schempf; Kathleen Moore; Lynne Handler; KevinS; Kathrine Engan; Scotty Smith; Chad Jackson; Elijah Fisher 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

Recording facts

• Recording title: My First Book (Version 2)
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 8:04:56

Catalogue topics

• authors
• writers
• starting out

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction by Jerome K. Jerome — 13:01
2. 01 - Ready-Money Mortiboy by Walter Besant — 18:04
3. 02 - The Family Scapegrace by James Payn — 17:09
4. 03 - The Wreck of the 'Grosvenor' by W. Clark — 20:04
5. 04 - Phisiological Aesthetics and Philistia by Grant Allen — 17:53
6. 05 - The Shadow of a Crime by Hall Caine — 32:57
7. 06 - The Social Kaleidoscope by George R. Sims — 20:43
8. 07 - Departmental Ditties by Rudyard Kipling — 10:02
9. 08 - Juvenilia by A. Conan Doyle — 16:27
10. 09 - The Trail of the Serpent by M.E. Braddon — 21:44
11. 10 - The House of Elmore by F.W. Robinson — 14:07
12. 11 - Dawn by H. Rider Haggard — 26:56
13. 12 - Hudson's Bay by R.M. Ballantyne — 15:10
14. 13 - The Premier and the Painter by I. Zangwill — 25:31
15. 14 - The Western Avernus by Morley Robinson — 18:58
16. 15 - A Life's Atonement by David Christie Murray — 20:57
17. 16 - A Romance of Two Worlds by Marie Corelli — 25:29
18. 17 - On the Stage and Off by Jerome K. Jerome — 30:48
19. 18 - Cavalry Life by 'John Strange Winter' (Mrs. Arthur Stannard) — 28:14
20. 19 - Californian Verse by Bret Harte — 17:55
21. 20 - Dead Man's Rock by 'Q' — 20:11
22. 21 - Undertones and Idylls and Legends of Inverburn by Robert Buchanan — 26:25
23. 22 - Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson — 26:11

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