Story of a Bad Boy

By Thomas Bailey Aldrich · Running time 5:50:26 · Children's Fiction

Audio streams directly from the Internet Archive. Recording by LibriVox volunteers (public domain). The text is in the public domain in the USA; please check the copyright laws of your country.

About this book

Thomas Bailey Aldrich was a child when his father moved to New Orleans from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. After 10 years, Aldrich was sent back to 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. Aldrich went on to associate with many of the literati of his time in New York City, and was editor o

Description from the LibriVox catalogue.

Chapters and downloads on LibriVox →

More by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (7)

You might also like

• Stillwater TragedyThomas Bailey Aldrich · 6:01:45
• NocturneThomas Bailey Aldrich · 0:09:23
• In the Old Church TowerThomas Bailey Aldrich · 0:20:51
• Sisters' Tragedy, with Other Poems, Lyrical and DramaticThomas Bailey Aldrich · 01:20:18
• LetterThomas Bailey Aldrich · 00:23:34
• Guilielmus RexThomas Bailey Aldrich · 00:13:54
• Mother Goose in ProseL. Frank Baum · 4:46:24
• Ranald Bannerman's BoyhoodGeorge MacDonald · 7:04:48