1916: First Chapters Collection

These are first chapters to books first published in 1916. Following is a tentative list culled from Wikipedia's article on the year in Literature; most of the works are to be found on Project Gutenberg,:Sherwood Anderson - Windy McPherson's Son Henri Barbusse - Under Fire (Le Feu) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12904 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48212 French L. Frank Baum - Rinkitink in Oz Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Beasts of Tarzan Alfred Döblin - The Three Leaps of Wang Lun (Die drei Sprünge des Wang-lun, dated 1915) Walter Flex - Der Wanderer zwischen beiden Welten ("The Wanderer between Two Worlds") Charlotte Perkins Gilman - With Her in Ourland Ellen Glasgow - Virginia Sarah Grand - The Winged Victory Louis Hemon - Maria Chapdelaine William Dean Howells - The Leatherwood God James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis Grace King - The Pleasant Ways of St. Medard https://archive.org/details/pleasantwaysstm01kinggoog Ring Lardner - You Know Me Al Benito Lynch - The Caranchos of Florida -Spanish https://archive.org/details/3399803 George Moore - The Brook Kerith: A Syrian Story https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12821 Baroness Orczy - Leatherface https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40500 May Sinclair - Tasker Jevons https://archive.org/details/taskerjevonsreal00sincuoft Rabindranath Tagore - The Home and the World (ঘরে বাইরে, Ghôre Baire) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7166 Booth Tarkington - Seventeen Mark Twain - The Mysterious Stranger (completed posthumously) Mrs Humphry Ward - Lady Connie https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13501 H. G. Wells - Mr. Britling Sees It Through - Summary by Matt Pierard