About this book
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Nocturne by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 3, 2011.
Aldrich attended school in Portsmouth to prepare for college. This period of his life is partly described in his semi-autobiographical novel The Story of a Bad Boy (1870), in which "Tom Bailey" is the juvenile hero. Critics have said that this novel contains the first realistic depiction of childhood in American fiction and prepared the ground for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Nocturne was taken from the Yale Book of American Verse, edited by Thomas R. Lounsbury (1838 - 1915)(Summary from Wikipedia)
Chapters
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- 1Chapter 10:58 · read by Bob Gonzalez
- 2Chapter 20:59 · read by David Lawrence
- 3Chapter 31:04 · read by Emma N.
- 4Chapter 41:03 · read by Garth Burton
- 5Chapter 51:02 · read by Algy Pug
- 6Chapter 60:58 · read by Jason Mills
- 7Chapter 71:02 · read by Lee Ann Howlett
- 8Chapter 81:05 · read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
- 9Chapter 91:12 · read by ravenotation
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