First Chapter Collection 012

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 twelfth "First Chapter Collection" in which readers share the first sections of 17 works of fiction and non-fiction, in English, Catalan, Polish, German, and French.

Genre(s): General Fiction, *Non-fiction

Language: Multilingual

Group: Multilingual First Chapter Collections

Section Chapter Author Source Reader Time Language
Play 01 Chapter 1 of Across America by Motor-cycle C. K. Shepherd Etext BettyB
00:13:22 en
Play 02 Chapter 1 of L'auca del senyor Esteve Santiago Rusiñol i Prats Etext Rafael Ferran i Peralta
00:09:00 ca
Play 03 Chapter 1 of Bez dogmatu Henryk Sienkiewicz Etext Piotr Nater
00:25:52 pl
Play 04 Chapter 1 of the Book of the Cheese Thomas Wilson Reid Etext Peter Yearsley
00:10:47 en
Play 05 Chapter 1 of Das Buch vom Eppele Karl Bröger Etext lorda
00:08:02 de
Play 06 Chapter 1 of The Four Men, a Farrago Hilaire Belloc Etext Peter Yearsley
00:08:32 en
Play 07 Chapter 1 of The Icknield Way Edward Thomas Etext Peter Yearsley
00:51:33 en
Play 08 Chapter 1 of Maria Chapdelaine Louis Hémon Etext czandra
00:32:06 fr
Play 09 Chapter 1 of the Neighbourhood Tickner Edwardes Etext Peter Yearsley
00:28:05 en
Play 10 Chapter 1 of The Pauper, The Thief and the Convict Thomas Archer Etext Peter Yearsley
00:13:09 en
Play 11 Chapter 1 of Peveril of the Peak Sir Walter Scott Etext czandra
00:30:13 en
Play 12 Chapter 1 of Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Etext Vrinda Shinde
00:05:35 en
Play 13 Chapter 1 of A Sagebrush Cinderella Max Brand Etext Kimi Weldon
00:12:12 en
Play 14 Chapter 1 of White Nights Fyodor Dostoyevsky Etext PlagueMonk
00:24:41 en
Play 15 Chapter 1 of Woodstock Sir Walter Scott Etext czandra
00:28:22 en
Play 16 Chapter 1 of The Works of George Berkeley George Berkeley Etext czandra
00:41:30 en
Play 17 Chapter 1 of La Xava Juli Vallmitjana Etext Rafael Ferran i Peralta
00:48:16 ca