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The Story of a Bad Boy

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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1870
Pages
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  1. 01 - In Which I Introduce Myself

    5:40

  2. 02 - In Which I Entertain Peculiar Views

    7:57

  3. 03 - On Board the Typhoon

    11:14

  4. 04 - Rivermouth

    14:53

  5. 05 - The Nutter House and the Nutter Family

    14:56

  6. 06 - Lights and Shadows

    25:46

  7. 07 - One Memorable Night

    20:22

  8. 08 - The Adventures of a Fourth

    14:14

  9. 09 - I Become an R. M. C.

    12:21

  10. 10 - I Fight Conway

    16:24

  11. 11 - All About Gypsy

    12:25

  12. 12 - Winter at Rivermouth

    11:40

  13. 13 - The Snow Fort on Slatter's Hill

    14:45

  14. 14 - The Cruise of the Dolphin

    36:21

  15. 15 - An Old Acquaintance Turns Up

    16:20

  16. 16 - In Which Sailor Ben Spins a Yarn

    18:09

  17. 17 - How We Astonished the Rivermouthians

    30:23

  18. 18 - A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go

    19:41

  19. 19 - I Become A Blighted Being

    8:32

  20. 20 - I Prove Myself To Be the Grandson of My Grandfather

    21:07

  21. 21 - In Which I Leave Rivermouth

    9:15

  22. 22 - Exeunt Omnes

    8:01

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Tom Bailey remembers boyhood with an adult's eye for his own vanity, impulses and misplaced certainty. Raised in New Orleans after his family leaves New England, he objects fiercely when his father proposes sending him north for school. His ideas about the region come from alarming stories, and his father's explanations gradually turn his dread into anticipation. Thomas Bailey Aldrich's 1870 novel follows this outspoken boy into the school life and friendships of Rivermouth.

A winter snowball fight becomes an elaborate campaign: opposing groups negotiate rules, commanders assign duties, and the North-Enders defend a fort on Slatter's Hill. The boys' solemn military language makes their winter play funny, while the older narrator's memories of former classmates give the opening a quieter sadness.

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) was an American writer, poet, critic and editor. He edited The Atlantic Monthly for many years and published writers such as Charles W. Chesnutt there. His semi-autobiographical book "The Story of a Bad Boy" gave rise to the bad boy's book subgenre in nineteenth-century American literature.

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First published
1870
Reading time
About 4 hours
Pages
118
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Don Halpert, Cate Barratt, alwpoe and others