The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors

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A 1908 NaNoWriMo forerunner, told in twelve chapters, each with a different author. The basic plot was to show how an engagement or marriage would affect and be affected by an entire family. The project became somewhat curious for the way the authors' contentious interrelationships mirrored the sometimes dysfunctional family they described in their chapters. The collaboration may have been an uncomfortable one, but a final product did emerge with some clever and entertaining contributions from its often squabbling authors. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia and others by Annise)

Genre(s): Family Life, General Fiction

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 The Father, by William Dean Howells Tom Lennon
00:41:58
Play 02 The Old-maid Aunt, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman MaryAnn
00:42:35
Play 03 The Grandmother, by Mary Heaton Vorse Amy Gramour
00:24:17
Play 04 The Daughter-in-Law, by Mary Stewart Doubleday Cutting Kalynda
00:26:55
Play 05 The School-Girl, by Elizabeth Jordan Heather Lawrence
00:29:33
Play 06 The Son-in-Law, by John Kendrick Bangs Sandra Estenson
00:34:44
Play 07 The Married Son, by Henry James Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
01:04:33
Play 08 The Married Daughter, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Elizabeth Klett
00:43:09
Play 09 The Mother, by Edith Wyatt TriciaG
00:31:35
Play 10 The School-Boy, by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews David Stryker
00:43:52
Play 11 Peggy, by Alice Brown Vsilverlining
00:38:03
Play 12 The Friend of the Family, by Henry van Dyke David Leeson
00:31:01