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Catalog date:
2018-06-04
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Proof Listener:
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The Book of This and That

Robert Lynd (1879 - 1949)

From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essays on topics as wide ranging as stupidity, Christmas, spring fashions, and the beauty of statistics. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Genre(s): Essays & Short Works

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Suspicion Tom Penn
 00:11:00
Play 02 On Good Resolutions Tom Penn
 00:11:08
Play 03 The Sin of Dancing CoMo290
 00:10:09
Play 04 Thoughts at a Tango Tea drandall
 00:14:17
Play 05 The Humours of Murder Skip Corris
 00:14:58
Play 06 The Decline and Fall of Hell CoMo290
 00:09:05
Play 07 On Cheerful Readers Dietrich Weber
 00:10:55
Play 08 St G. B. S. and the Bishop DrPGould
 00:10:44
Play 09 Stupidity realisticspeakers
 00:14:37
Play 10 Waste realisticspeakers
 00:12:56
Play 11 On Christmas Larry Wilson
 00:12:04
Play 12 On Demagogues Skip Corris
 00:12:03
Play 13 On Coincidences Kathleen Moore
 00:13:42
Play 14 On Indignation Kathleen Moore
 00:12:22
Play 15 The Heart of Mr Galsworthy Kathleen Moore
 00:13:11
Play 16 Spring Fashions drandall
 00:13:31
Play 17 On Black Cats Devorah Allen
 00:09:52
Play 18 On Being Shocked AnnaLisa Bodtker
 00:14:06
Play 19 Confessions Skip Corris
 00:11:27
Play 20 The Terrors of Politics Greg Giordano
 00:11:33
Play 21 On Disasters Greg Giordano
 00:13:55
Play 22 The Rights of Murder Skip Corris
 00:12:34
Play 23 The Humour of Hoaxes Greg Giordano
 00:12:37
Play 24 Anatole France Skip Corris
 00:11:50
Play 25 The Sea Larry Wilson
 00:13:21
Play 26 The Futurists realisticspeakers
 00:14:05
Play 27 A Defence of Critics Tom Penn
 00:11:12
Play 28 On the Beauty of Statistics Tom Penn
 00:12:18