The Third Circle


Read by David Wales

(4.3 stars; 9 reviews)

Sixteen short stories by the American novelist Benjamin Frank Norris Jr (1870-1902) who wrote predominantly in the naturalist genre. He lived and worked in San Francisco. His writing has been compared to Emile Zola, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Edith Wharton. His writings sometimes contain an anti-Semitic element. - Summary by Wikipedia and david wales (5 hr 34 min)

Chapters

Introduction 7:06 Read by David Wales
The Third Circle 18:36 Read by David Wales
The House With The Blinds 16:35 Read by David Wales
Little Dramas Of The Curbstone 13:24 Read by David Wales
Shorty Stack, Pugilist 18:23 Read by David Wales
The Strangest Thing 14:12 Read by David Wales
A Reversion To Type 16:16 Read by David Wales
Boom 11:39 Read by David Wales
The Dis-Associated Charities 20:49 Read by David Wales
Son Of A Sheik 14:54 Read by David Wales
A Defense Of The Flag 17:47 Read by David Wales
Toppan 18:25 Read by David Wales
A Caged Lion 20:08 Read by David Wales
This Animal Of A Buldy Jones 17:35 Read by David Wales
Dying Fires 30:26 Read by David Wales
Grettir At Drangey 39:56 Read by David Wales
The Guest Of Honor 38:38 Read by David Wales

Reviews

Good stories concealed in excessive wordiness.


(2.5 stars)

Some good stories in here, on unusual subjects, but obscured by excessive verbiage. I constantly found my focus drifting while waiting for anything that progressed the plot, and eventually, I had to skim read some of the stories online on Project Gutenberg to find out what actually happened.