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