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The Crack of DoomRobert Cromie

The Crack of Doom

Listening time
about 4 h 36 min
Length
42,675 words
Public domain
the author died in 1907
Edition
Public-domain text, cleaned for narration
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242 KB stored on your device
Language
English
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Thus spake Herbert Brande, a passenger on the _Majestic_, making for Queenstown Harbour, one evening early in the past year. Foolish as the words may seem, they were partly influential in leading to my terrible association with him, and all that is described in this book. Brande was standing beside me on the starboard side of the vessel. We had been discussing a current astronomical essay, as we watched the hazy blue line of the Irish coast rise on the horizon.

The Crack of Doom · Robert Cromie

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