The Story of a Bad Boy Author:Thomas Bailey Aldrich
A semi-autobiographical novel 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 Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
- Chapter One. In Which I Introduce Myself
- Chapter Two. In Which I Entertain Peculiar Views
- Chapter Three. On Board the Typhoon
- Chapter Four. Rivermouth
- Chapter Five. The Nutter House and the Nutter Family
- Chapter Six. Lights and Shadows
- Chapter Seven. One Memorable Night
- Chapter Eight. The Adventures of a Fourth
- Chapter Nine. I Become an R. M. C.
- Chapter Ten. I Fight Conway
- Chapter Eleven. All About Gypsy
- Chapter Twelve. Winter at Rivermouth
- Chapter Thirteen. The Snow Fort on Slatter's Hill
- Chapter Fourteen. The Cruise of the Dolphin
- Chapter Fifteen. An Old Acquaintance Turns Up
- Chapter Sixteen. In Which Sailor Ben Spins a Yarn
- Chapter Seventeen. How We Astonished the Rivermouthians
- Chapter Eighteen. A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go
- Chapter Nineteen. I Become A Blighted Being
- Chapter Twenty. In Which I Prove Myself To Be the Grandson of My Grandfather
- Chapter Twenty-One. In Which I Leave Rivermouth
- Chapter Twenty-Two. Exeunt Omnes
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