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First Chapter Collection 009

Various

The first chapter of a book is often the hook to draw a reader in. It could make you eager for more or realize it isn't for you. Here we offer the ninth
"First Chapter Collection" in which readers share the first chapters of a variety of fiction and non-fiction works.

Genre(s): Anthologies

Language: English

Group: Multilingual First Chapter Collections

Section Chapter Author Source Reader Time Language
Play 01 The American Diary of a Japanese Girl Yone Noguchi Etext Ai Robotto
 00:17:38
Play 02 'The Beginning of it All' from Unvisited Places of Old Europe 1914 Robert Shackleton Etext BettyB
 00:12:58
Play 03 Black Beauty Anna Sewell Etext Colleen McMahon
 00:04:13
Play 04 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written By Herself Harriet Jacobs Etext Jacqueline Burrell Walton
 00:11:03 en
Play 05 Eurico, o presbitero Alexandre Herculano Etext Mayah
 00:08:32 pt
Play 06 A Flight from Siberia Wacław Sieroszewski Etext Piotr Nater
 00:17:34
Play 07 Le Foyer Canadien: recueil littéraire et historique, tôme IV, 1866 Préambule: nouveau prospectus Various Etext czandra
 00:11:52 fr
Play 08 Along French Byways Clifton Johnson Etext BettyB
 00:33:57
Play 09 How the World is Housed Frank G. Carpenter Etext BettyB
 00:10:50 en
Play 10 Isabel D'Aragão, a rainha santa Anonymous Etext Mayah
 00:05:49 pt
Play 11 Quincas Borba Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis Etext Missgabi
 00:01:40
Play 12 Stara Baśń Józef Ignacy Kraszewski Etext Piotr Nater
 00:27:20 pl
Play 13 Ubirajara José de Alencar Etext brianna
 00:24:38 pt
Play 14 Up From Slavery: An Autobiography Booker T. Washington Etext Jacqueline Burrell Walton
 00:32:33
Play 15 The Voice in the Rice Gouverneur Morris Etext Rapunzelina
 00:06:06