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Godfrey Morgan: a Californian Mystery

Name: Godfrey Morgan: a Californian Mystery
Author: Jules Verne

Jules Verne

Read by Arnold · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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CHAPTER I. In which the reader has the opportunity of buying an Island in the Pacific Ocean (14:06)
CHAPTER II. How William W. Kolderup, of San Francisco, was at loggerheads with J. R. Taskinar, of Stockton (18:26)
CHAPTER III. The conversation of Phina Hollaney and Godfrey Morgan, with a piano accompaniment (15:09)
CHAPTER IV. In which T. Artelett, otherwise Tartlet, is duly introduced to the reader (11:30)
CHAPTER V. In which they prepare to go, and at the end of which they go for good (13:56)
CHAPTER VI. In which the reader makes the acquaintance of a new personage (11:58)
CHAPTER VII. In which it will be seen that William W. Kolderup was probably right in insuring his ship (18:30)
CHAPTER VIII. Which leads Godfrey to bitter reflections on the mania for travelling (18:21)
CHAPTER IX. In which it is shown that Crusoes do not have everything as they wish (16:37)
CHAPTER X. In which Godfrey does what any other shipwrecked man would have done under the circumstances (16:48)
CHAPTER XI. In which the question of lodging is solved as well as it could be (15:31)
CHAPTER XII. Which ends with a thunder-bolt (18:18)
CHAPTER XIII. In which Godfrey again sees a slight smoke over another part of the Island (16:26)
CHAPTER XIV. Wherein Godfrey finds some wreckage, to which he and his companion give a hearty welcome (16:05)
CHAPTER XV. In which there happens what happens at least once in the life of every Crusoe, real or imaginary (16:33)
CHAPTER XVI. In which something happens which cannot fail to surprise the reader (13:57)
CHAPTER XVII. In which Professor Tartlet's gun really does marvels (17:13)
CHAPTER XVIII. Which treats of the moral and physical education of a simple native of the Pacific (17:27)
CHAPTER XIX. In which the situation already gravely compromised becomes more and more complicated (17:21)
CHAPTER XX. In which Tartlet reiterates in every key that he would rather be off (19:19)
CHAPTER XXI. Which ends with quite a surprising reflection by the negro Carefinotu (23:22)
CHAPTER XXII. Which concludes by explaining what up to now had appeared inexplicable (18:22)