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Fiction · 1870

The Story of a Bad Boy

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Reading time
about 4 h
Length
56,523 words · 208 pages
Structure
22 chapters
Language
English
Era
Victorian

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Contents

  1. Chapter One — In Which I Introduce Myself
  2. Chapter Two — In Which I Entertain Peculiar Views
  3. Chapter Three — On Board the Typhoon
  4. Chapter Four — Rivermouth
  5. Chapter Five — The Nutter House and the Nutter Family
  6. Chapter Six — Lights and Shadows
  7. Chapter Seven — One Memorable Night
  8. Chapter Eight — The Adventures of a Fourth
  9. Chapter Nine — I Become an R. M. C
  10. Chapter Ten — I Fight Conway
  11. Chapter Eleven — All About Gypsy
  12. Chapter Twelve — Winter at Rivermouth
  13. Chapter Thirteen — The Snow Fort on Slatter’s Hill
  14. Chapter Fourteen — The Cruise of the Dolphin
  15. Chapter Fifteen — An Old Acquaintance Turns Up
  16. Chapter Sixteen — In Which Sailor Ben Spins a Yarn
  17. Chapter Seventeen — How We Astonished the Rivermouthians
  18. Chapter Eighteen — A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go
  19. Chapter Nineteen — I Become a Blighted Being
  20. Chapter Twenty — I Prove Myself to Be the Grandson of My Grandfather
  21. Chapter Twenty-One — In Which I Leave Rivermouth
  22. Chapter Twenty-Two — Exeunt Omnes

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