The Last Galley, Impressions and Tales
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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From the Preface:
I HAVE written "Impressions and Tales" upon the title-page of this volume, because I have included within the same cover two styles of work which present an essential difference.
The second half of the collection consists of eight stories, which explain themselves.
The first half is made up of a series of pictures of the past which may be regarded as trial flights towards a larger ideal which I have long had in my mind. It has seemed to me that there is a region between actual story and actual history which has never been adequately exploited. I could imagine, for example, a work dealing with some great historical epoch, and finding its interest not in the happenings to particular individuals, their adventures and their loves, but in the fascination of the actual facts of history them selves. These facts might be coloured with the glamour which the writer of fiction can give, and fictitious characters and conversations might illustrate them; but none the less the actual drama" of history and not the drama of invention should claim the attention of the reader. I have been tempted some times to try the effect upon a larger scale ; but mean while these short sketches, portraying various crises in the story of the human race, are to be judged as experiments in that direction." Summary by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (7 hr 51 min)
Chapters
Preface | 1:47 | Read by Ben Tucker |
The Last Galley | 18:57 | Read by Ted Perkins |
The Contest | 19:17 | Read by Wallace Morgan |
Through the Veil | 17:16 | Read by Kerry Adams |
An Iconoclast | 14:47 | Read by RedPoppy |
Giant Maximin | 40:27 | Read by Christine Rottger |
The Coming of the Huns | 24:35 | Read by czandra |
The Last of the Legions | 16:39 | Read by James K. White |
The First Cargo | 19:34 | Read by Laurie Banza |
The Home-Coming | 29:41 | Read by Claudia Caldi |
The Red Star | 20:20 | Read by Jeff Pierpont |
The Silver Mirror | 26:28 | Read by Michael James |
The Blighting of Sharkey | 33:58 | Read by Rita Boutros |
The Marriage of the Brigadier | 20:47 | Read by Cavaet |
The Lord of Falconbridge Part 1 | 18:42 | Read by aaronjwalker9 |
The Lord of Falconbridge Part 2 | 11:16 | Read by aaronjwalker9 |
The Lord of Falconbridge Part 3 | 18:39 | Read by aaronjwalker9 |
Out of the Running | 33:24 | Read by aaronjwalker9 |
"De Profundis" | 27:08 | Read by Christine Rottger |
The Great Brown-Pericord Motor | 17:18 | Read by Ben Tucker |
The Terror of Blue John Gap | 40:04 | Read by Ben Tucker |
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