Pipefuls


Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers

(5 stars; 3 reviews)

A delightful collection of 48 essays on various topics of the human condition that caught his fancy. Witty, insightful and funny of course and on occasion thought provoking and even disturbing. From the preface "These sketches gave me pain to write; they will give the judicious patron pain to read; therefore we are quits. I think, as I look over their slattern paragraphs, of that most tragic hour—it falls about 4 p. m. in the office of an evening newspaper—when the unhappy compiler tries to round up the broodings of the day and still get home in time for supper. And yet perhaps the will-to-live is in them, for are they not a naked exhibit of the antics a man will commit in order to earn a living? In extenuation it may be pleaded that none of them are so long that they may not be mitigated by an accompanying pipe of tobacco." (Summary by phil chenevert) (6 hr 24 min)

Kapitel

01 - On Making Friends 11:07 Gelesen von klbonds
02 - Thoughts on Cider 13:29 Gelesen von klbonds
03 - One-Night Stands 11:37 Gelesen von klbonds
04 - The Owl Train 5:32 Gelesen von Highlandoaks
05 - Safety Pins 6:28 Gelesen von Chessie Joy
06 - Confessions of a “Colyumist” 11:30 Gelesen von Daryl Wor
07 - Moving 9:17 Gelesen von Mike Pelton
08 - Surf Fishing 5:09 Gelesen von asterix
09 - “Idolatry” 13:11 Gelesen von asterix
10 - The First Commencement Address 4:24 Gelesen von asterix
11 - The Downfall of George Snipe 4:24 Gelesen von asterix
12 - Meditations of a Bookseller 6:14 Gelesen von Daryl Wor
13 - If Buying a Meal Were Like Buying a House 4:03 Gelesen von Pamela Krantz
14 - Adventures in High Finance 4:23 Gelesen von Mike Pelton
15 - On Visiting Bookshops 7:45 Gelesen von Pamela Krantz
16 - A Discovery 12:23 Gelesen von Mike Pelton
17 - Silas Orrin Howes 8:26 Gelesen von Mike Pelton
18 - Joyce Kilmer 20:34 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
19 - An Early Train 9:12 Gelesen von Daryl Wor
20 - Ridge Avenue 9:16 Gelesen von Deon Gines
21 - The University and the Urchin 9:03 Gelesen von Deon Gines
22 - Pine Street 7:10 Gelesen von Deon Gines
23 - Pershing in Philadelphia 10:10 Gelesen von Greg Giordano
24 - Fall Fever 6:23 Gelesen von Greg Giordano
25 - Two Days Before Christmas 8:42 Gelesen von Greg Giordano
26 - In West Philadelphia 8:53 Gelesen von Greg Giordano
27 - Horace Traubel 3:58 Gelesen von MACase
28 - The Anatomy of Manhattan 8:36 Gelesen von Tom Merritt
29 - Vesey Street 11:30 Gelesen von Tom Merritt
30 - Brooklyn Bridge 8:10 Gelesen von Daryl Wor
31 - Three Hours for Lunch 9:00 Gelesen von Daryl Wor
32 - Passage from Some Memoirs 10:45 Gelesen von NatalieOram
33 - First Lessons in Clowning 14:30 Gelesen von Tom Merritt
34 - House Hunting 5:26 Gelesen von MACase
35 - Long Island Revisited 10:51 Gelesen von klbonds
36 - On Being in a Hurry 7:57 Gelesen von Daryl Wor
37 - Confessions of a Human Globule 2:17 Gelesen von Daryl Wor
38 - Notes on a Fifth Avenue Bus 2:38 Gelesen von Highlandoaks
39 - Sunday Morning 8:37 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
40 - Venison Pasty 6:36 Gelesen von klbonds
41 - Grand Avenue, Brooklyn 6:09 Gelesen von klbonds
42 - On Waiting for the Curtain to Go Up 4:01 Gelesen von Chessie Joy
43 - Musings of John Mistletoe 2:27 Gelesen von Highlandoaks
44 - The World's Most Famous Oration 2:17 Gelesen von MACase
45 - On Laziness 7:33 Gelesen von Tom Merritt
46 - Teaching the Prince to Take Notes 5:10 Gelesen von Tom Merritt
47 - A City Notebook 9:00 Gelesen von Tom Merritt
48 - On Going to Bed 8:06 Gelesen von Tom Merritt