Turns About Town


Gelesen von Tom Penn

(4.4 stars; 7 reviews)

Robert Cortes Holliday was an early 20th century essayist, editor, and librarian. Writer Christopher Morley said that he "has the genuine gift of the personal essay, mellow, fluent, and pleasantly eccentric." Most of these pleasant pieces appeared originally in various American newspapers and magazines. - Summary by Tom Penn (8 hr 27 min)

Kapitel

The Hotel Guest 12:36 Gelesen von Tom Penn
A Humorist Misfits at a Murder Trial 18:15 Gelesen von Tom Penn
Queer Thing, Bout Undertakers Shops 13:24 Gelesen von Tom Penn
The Haircut that Went to My Head 12:56 Gelesen von Tom Penn
Seeing Mr. Chesterton 21:50 Gelesen von Tom Penn
When is a Great City a Small Village? 13:20 Gelesen von Tom Penn
The Unusualness of Parisian Philadelphia 13:10 Gelesen von Tom Penn
Our Last Social Engagement as a Fine Art 12:43 Gelesen von Tom Penn
Writing in Rooms 23:44 Gelesen von Tom Penn
Taking the Air in San Francisco 13:13 Gelesen von Tom Penn
Bidding Mr. Chesterton Good-Bye 24:20 Gelesen von Tom Penn
No System at all to the Human System 13:20 Gelesen von Tom Penn
Seeing the Situations Wanted Scene 17:02 Gelesen von Tom Penn
Literary Lives 16:37 Gelesen von Tom Penn
So Very Theatrical 12:35 Gelesen von Tom Penn
Our Steeplejack of the Seven Arts 19:54 Gelesen von Tom Penn
Former Tenant of His Room 11:41 Gelesen von Tom Penn
Only She Was There 16:22 Gelesen von Tom Penn
A Humorists Note-Book 16:24 Gelesen von Tom Penn
Including Studies of Traffic Cops 11:05 Gelesen von Tom Penn
Three Words about Literature 7:41 Gelesen von Tom Penn
Recollections of Landladies 21:31 Gelesen von Tom Penn
An Idiosyncrasy 24:44 Gelesen von Tom Penn
The Sexless Camera 7:02 Gelesen von Tom Penn
I Know an Editor 7:35 Gelesen von Tom Penn
A Dip into the Underworld 13:23 Gelesen von Tom Penn
Nosing Round Washington 55:06 Gelesen von Tom Penn
Fame: A Story of American Literature, Part 1 28:20 Gelesen von Tom Penn
Fame: A Story of American Literature, Part 2 27:51 Gelesen von Tom Penn

Bewertungen

Fantastic


(5 stars)

Really wonderful snippets of life, and a brilliant reader. There is nothing like a contemporaneous source to give a very specific picture of what life used to be like. Highly recommended. I cannot wait to listen to it all again

Great stories!


(5 stars)

The reader is excellent and the stories are little gems!