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In Our Town

by William Allen White

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1906
Pages
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Read by Ciufi Galeazzi, TR Love, Joanne Turner and others · 7 h 39 min · 19 parts

  1. Scribes and Pharisees

    19:54

  2. The Young Prince

    11:49

  3. The Society Editor

    13:28

  4. "As a Breath into the Wind"

    43:16

  5. The Coming of the Leisure Class

    13:49

  6. The Bolton Girl's "Position"

    12:29

  7. "By the Rod of His Wrath"

    37:20

  8. "A Bundle of Myrrh"

    17:02

  9. Our Loathed but Esteemed Contemporary

    15:20

  10. A Question of Climate

    14:21

  11. The Casting Out of Jimmy Myers

    16:30

  12. "A Babbled of Green Fields"

    27:56

  13. A Pilgrim in the Wilderness

    23:10

  14. The Passing of Priscilla Winthrop

    28:01

  15. "And Yet a Fool"

    17:08

  16. A Kansas "Childe Roland"

    56:51

  17. The Tremolo Stop

    55:37

  18. Sown in Our Weakness

    25:35

  19. "Thirty"

    10:12

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A small-town daily newspaper office is the vantage point for this collection of nineteen linked sketches by William Allen White (1868-1944). The narrator speaks for the whole staff, who see everything and print only part of it: the Baptist choir that cannot be rid of its bass singer, the widower whose courting is the subject of office bets, the bank cashier whose twenty faithful years end in a shortage that his wife makes good by selling the family home.

Chapter titles such as "The Society Editor", "The Coming of the Leisure Class" and "Our Loathed but Esteemed Contemporary" show the range. Some pieces are comic, poking mild fun at the town's pretenders. Others turn tender, as in the story of an old Sunday-school teacher and a boyhood friend who went wrong and came home ill.

First collected in 1906 and set among the editors, preachers, club women and bankers of a Kansas-style country town, the book gives a warm and funny view of ordinary American life.

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Book facts

First published
1906
Reading time
About 5 hours
Pages
151
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Ciufi Galeazzi, TR Love, Joanne Turner and others