Episodes Before Thirty
Algernon Blackwood
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Blackwood wrote this autobiography in his fifties, describing his first thirty years as an almost penniless British adventurer in Canada and New York, trying his hand at all sorts of investments, getting swindled again and again, sleeping on park benches, living in the woods, and sharing a one room tenement with friends who betrayed him and others who helped him through sickness and injury, reporting on aberrant personalities he met, their strange circumstances, and witnessing the criminal workings of Tammany Hall during his stint as a reporter for the Sun. His sanity was saved by his love of nature and writing as a therapeutic pastime, until he finally returned to England, where he began submitting his stories and made a name for himself as "one of the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre" (from Wikipedia). This is a fascinating and precarious "coming of age" story. - Summary by Michele Fry (0 hr 2 min)
Chapters
Chapter 1 | 9:39 | Read by Michele Fry |
Chapter 2 | 10:37 | Read by Michele Fry |
Chapter 3 | 14:26 | Read by William Allan Jones |
Chapter 4 | 23:27 | Read by William Allan Jones |
Chapter 5 | 34:43 | Read by William Allan Jones |
Chapter 6 | 9:36 | Read by Kerry Adams |
Chapter 7 | 13:21 | Read by mbm0rxi |
Chapter 8 | 27:38 | Read by Michele Fry |
Chapter 9 | 21:55 | Read by Michele Fry |
Chapter 10 | 20:33 | Read by Michele Fry |
Chapter 11 | 27:17 | Read by Michele Fry |
Chapter 12 | 16:26 | Read by Michele Fry |
Chapter 13 | 23:19 | Read by Ryan Fahey |
Chapter 14 | 23:11 | Read by Christine Rottger |
Chapter 15 | 21:57 | Read by Rita Boutros |
Chapter 16 | 20:52 | Read by Rita Boutros |
Chapter 17 | 20:42 | Read by Rita Boutros |
Chapter 18 | 24:36 | Read by Rita Boutros |
Chapter 19 | 19:10 | Read by Rita Boutros |
Chapter 20 | 30:57 | Read by Rita Boutros |
Chapter 21 | 17:12 | Read by Rita Boutros |
Chapter 22 | 19:37 | Read by Rita Boutros |
Chapter 23 | 19:12 | Read by Dan Gurzynski |
Chapter 24 | 21:58 | Read by Dan Gurzynski |
Chapter 25 | 27:36 | Read by Paul Vida |
Chapter 26 | 32:21 | Read by Dan Gurzynski |
Chapter 27 | 34:21 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Chapter 28 | 22:17 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Chapter 29 | 13:23 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Chapter 30 | 10:58 | Read by daydegenza |
Chapter 31 | 41:35 | Read by Rita Boutros |
Chapter 32 | 47:13 | Read by Rita Boutros |