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First Chapter Collection 013

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The first chapter of a book is often the hook to draw a reader in. It could make you eager for more or realise it isn't for you. Here we offer the 13th "First Chapter Collection" in which readers share the first sections of 16 works of fiction and non-fiction, in English, French, Czech, and Spanish.

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

Language: Multilingual

Keyword(s): beginnings (3)

Group: Multilingual First Chapter Collections

Section Chapter Author Source Reader Time Language
Play 01 Chapter 1 of The Amateur Gentleman John Jeffery Farnol Etext Douglas Jewsbury
 00:27:20 en
Play 02 Introduction of Appel à la justice de l'état Pierre du Calvet Etext czandra
 00:33:30 fr
Play 03 Chapter 1 of Beautiful Joe Marshall Saunders Etext valroth
 00:10:08 en
Play 04 Chapter 1 of The Boy Scouts Afoot in France St. George Henry Rathborne Etext Sarah Mohamed
 00:12:39 en
Play 05 Chapter 1 of The Children of the New Forest Frederick Marryat Etext Evangeline Wells
 00:18:24 en
Play 06 Chapter 1 of Dämonische Mächte Johanna von Franul Etext lorda
 00:10:39 de
Play 07 Chapter 1 of El único y su propiedad Max Stirner Etext FiccionNarrada
 00:09:23 es
Play 08 Chapter 1 of Etidorhpa John Uri Lloyd Etext Public Domain Scholar
 00:23:17 en
Play 09 Chapter 1 of The Folklore of Plants Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer Etext Peter Yearsley
 00:27:24 en
Play 10 Chapter 1 of Green Tea Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Etext Jarrod Wetzel-Brown
 00:10:13 en
Play 11 Chapter 1 of L'oublié Laure Conan Etext czandra
 00:17:56 fr
Play 12 Chapter 1 of Making a Rock Garden Henry Sherman Adams Etext Peter Yearsley
 00:04:29 en
Play 13 Chapter 1 of Sartor Resartus Thomas Carlyle Etext Public Domain Scholar
 00:10:15 en
Play 14 Chapter 1 of Squinty the Comical Pig Richard Barnum Etext Natalia
 00:12:33 en
Play 15 Chapter 1 of Tarzan Of The Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs Etext Brian Campbell
 00:18:34 en
Play 16 Chapter 1 of Továrna na absolutno Karel Čapek Etext puckleaf
 00:10:16 cs