The Story of a Bad Boy: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Story of a Bad Boy, credited to Thomas Bailey Aldrich, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Story of a Bad Boy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Read by LibriVox Volunteers Thomas Bailey Aldrich was a child when his father moved to New Orleans from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. After 10 years, Aldrich was sent back to Portsmouth to prepare for college. This period of his life is partly described in his semi-autobiographical novel The Story of a Bad Boy (1870), in which "Tom Bailey" is the juvenile hero. Critics have said that this novel contains the first realistic depiction of childhood in American fiction and prepared the ground for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Aldrich went on to associate with many of the literati of his time in New York City, and was editor of the Atlantic Monthly in the 1880's. His son died of Tuberculosis in Saranac lake, NY, and the family house is now a Bed and Breakfast there. The Aldrich house in Portsmouth is part of the Strawberry Banke Museum in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (Summary by Samanem)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Story of a Bad Boy
• Author credits: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 5:50:26

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• New England
• children
• childhood

Track guide

1. 01 - In Which I Introduce Myself — 5:40
2. 02 - In Which I Entertain Peculiar Views — 7:57
3. 03 - On Board the Typhoon — 11:15
4. 04 - Rivermouth — 14:54
5. 05 - The Nutter House and the Nutter Family — 14:57
6. 06 - Lights and Shadows — 25:47
7. 07 - ONe Memorable Night — 20:22
8. 08 - The Adventures of a Fourth — 14:15
9. 09 - I Become an R. M. C. — 12:22
10. 10 - I Fight Conway — 16:24
11. 11 - All About Gypsy — 12:26
12. 12 - Winter at Rivermouth — 11:40
13. 13 - The Snow Fort on Slatter's Hill — 14:45
14. 14 - The Cruise of the Dolphin — 36:21
15. 15 - An Old Acquaintance Turns Up — 16:20
16. 16 - In Which Sailor Ben Spins a Yarn — 18:10
17. 17 - How We Astonished the Rivermouthians — 30:24
18. 18 - A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go — 19:42
19. 19 - I Become A Blighted Being — 8:33
20. 20 - I Prove Myself To Be the Grandson of My Grandfather — 21:08
21. 21 - In Which I Leave Rivermouth — 9:16
22. 22 - Exeunt Omnes — 8:02

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