{"product_id":"2940013273412","title":"The Story of a Bad Boy [With ATOC]","description":"An excerpt from the first chapter:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is the story of a bad boy. Well, not such a very bad, but a pretty bad boy; and I ought to know, for I am, or rather I was, that boy myself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLest the title should mislead the reader, I hasten to assure him here that I have no dark confessions to make. I call my story the story of a bad boy, partly to distinguish myself from those faultless young gentlemen who generally figure in narratives of this kind, and partly because I really was not a cherub. I may truthfully say I was an amiable, impulsive lad, blessed with fine digestive powers, and no hypocrite. I didn't want to be an angel and with the angels stand; I didn't think the missionary tracts presented to me by the Rev. Wibird Hawkins were half so nice as Robinson Crusoe; and I didn't send my little pocket-money to the natives of the Feejee Islands, but spent it royally in peppermint-drops and taffy candy. In short, I was a real human boy, such as you may meet anywhere in New England, and no more like the impossible boy in a storybook than a sound orange is like one that has been sucked dry. But let us begin at the beginning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhenever a new scholar came to our school, I used to confront him at recess with the following words: \"My name's Tom Bailey; what's your name?\" If the name struck me favorably, I shook hands with the new pupil cordially; but if it didn't, I would turn on my heel, for I was particular on this point. Such names as Higgins, Wiggins, and Spriggins were deadly affronts to my ear; while Langdon, Wallace, Blake, and the like, were passwords to my confidence and esteem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAh me! some of those dear fellows are rather elderly boys by this time—lawyers, merchants, sea-captains, soldiers, authors, what not? Phil Adams (a special good name that Adams) is consul at Shanghai, where I picture him to myself with his head closely shaved—he never had too much hair—and a long pigtail banging down behind. He is married, I hear; and I hope he and she that was Miss Wang Wang are very happy together, sitting cross-legged over their diminutive cups of tea in a skyblue tower hung with bells. It is so I think of him; to me he is henceforth a jewelled mandarin, talking nothing but broken China...\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:\u003cbr\u003e01    I Introduce Myself\u003cbr\u003e02 In Which I Entertain Peculiar Views\u003cbr\u003e03 On Board the Typhoon\u003cbr\u003e04 Rivermouth\u003cbr\u003e05 The Nutter House and the Nutter Family\u003cbr\u003e06 Lights and Shadows\u003cbr\u003e07 One Memorable Night\u003cbr\u003e08 The Adventures of a Fourth\u003cbr\u003e09 I Become an R. M. C.\u003cbr\u003e10 I Fight Conway\u003cbr\u003e11 All About Gypsy\u003cbr\u003e12 Winter at Rivermouth\u003cbr\u003e13 The Snow Fort on Slatter's Hill\u003cbr\u003e14 The Cruise of the Dolphin\u003cbr\u003e15 An Old Acquaintance Turns Up\u003cbr\u003e16 In Which Sailor Ben Spins a Yarn\u003cbr\u003e17 How We Astonished the Rivermouthians\u003cbr\u003e18 A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go\u003cbr\u003e19 I Become A Blighted Being\u003cbr\u003e20 I Prove Myself To Be the Grandson of My Grandfather\u003cbr\u003e21 In Which I Leave Rivermouth\u003cbr\u003e22   Exeunt Omnes","brand":"Ladislav Deczi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145620472048,"sku":"2940013273412","price":3.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013273412_p0.jpg?v=1763578693","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013273412","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}