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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) (7 hr 32 min)

Chapters

The Father, by William Dean Howells

41:58

Read by Tom Lennon

The Old-maid Aunt, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

42:35

Read by MaryAnn

The Grandmother, by Mary Heaton Vorse

24:17

Read by Amy Gramour

The Daughter-in-Law, by Mary Stewart Doubleday Cutting

26:55

Read by Kalynda

The School-Girl, by Elizabeth Jordan

29:33

Read by Heather Lawrence

The Son-in-Law, by John Kendrick Bangs

34:44

Read by Sandra Estenson

The Married Son, by Henry James

1:04:33

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)

The Married Daughter, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

43:09

Read by Elizabeth Klett

The Mother, by Edith Wyatt

31:35

Read by TriciaG

The School-Boy, by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews

43:52

Read by David Stryker

Peggy, by Alice Brown

38:03

Read by Vsilverlining

The Friend of the Family, by Henry van Dyke

31:01

Read by David Leeson