Ginx's Baby: His Birth and Other Misfortunes: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Ginx's Baby: His Birth and Other Misfortunes, credited to Edward Jenkins, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Ginx's Baby: His Birth and Other Misfortunes by Edward Jenkins. Read in English by Lisa Reichert In the second half of the 19th century, London was becoming a wealthy, industrialized city. It attracted many working class people from nearby towns and rural areas, all hoping to improve their lives and the futures of their family. But this growing population led to stiff competition for jobs, and the wealthy business owners didn't need to offer fair wages to get or keep workers, resulting in rampant poverty, overcrowding, and unsanitary slums. Many emigrated from Britian during this time, but for others things remained very desperate. This "light", satirical novel deals with what Ginx, one such poor man, did with the baby he could not afford to keep, and then what Charity and the Churches did with Ginx's Baby, what the Parish did with him, what the Clubs and Politicians did with him, and ultimately, what Ginx's Baby did with himself. - Summary by Lisa Reichert

Recording facts

• Recording title: Ginx's Baby: His Birth and Other Misfortunes
• Author credits: Edward Jenkins
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 34
• Listed recording duration: 3:30:33

Catalogue topics

• politics
• society
• poverty
• child of the state

Opening tracks: first 24 of 34

1. 01 - PREFACE & PART I. What Ginx Did With Him. Chapter 1: Ab Initio — 4:46
2. 02 - PART I. Chapter 2: Home, Sweet Home! — 6:45
3. 03 - PART I. Chapter 3: Work and Ideas — 4:06
4. 04 - PART I. Chapter 4: Digressive, and May Be Skipped Without Mutilating the History — 6:41
5. 05 - PART I. Chapter 5: Reasons and Resolves — 3:30
6. 06 - PART I. Chapter 6: the Antagonism of Law and Necessity — 6:23
7. 07 - PART I. Chapter 7: Malthus and Man — 8:16
8. 08 - PART I. Chapter 8: The Baby's First Translation — 2:06
9. 09 - PART II. What Charity and the Churches Did With Him. Chapter 1: The Milk of Human Kindness, Mother's Milk, and the Milk of the Word — 10:52
10. 10 - PART II. Chapter 2: The Protestant Detectoral Association — 4:03
11. 11 - PART II. Chapter 3: The Sacrament of Baptism — 2:33
12. 12 - PART II. Chapter 4: Law On Behalf of Gospel — 9:16
13. 13 - PART II. Chapter 5: Magistrate's Law — 3:59
14. 14 - PART II. Chapter 6: Popery and Protestantism in the Queen's Bench — 5:59
15. 15 - PART II. Chapter 7: A Protestor, But Not a Protestant — 2:56
16. 16 - PART II. Chapter 8: "See How These Christians Love One Another" — 12:02
17. 17 - PART II. Chapter 9: Good Samaritans, and Good-Samaritan Twopences — 3:46
18. 18 - PART II. Chapter 10: The Force--and a Specimen of Its Weakness — 3:56
19. 19 - PART II. Chapter 11: The Unity of the Spirit and the Bond of Peace — 18:54
20. 20 - PART II. Chapter 12: No Funds--No Faith, No Works — 2:36
21. 21 - PART II. Chapter 13: In Transitu — 1:00
22. 22 - PART III. What the Parish Did With Him. Chapter 1: Parochial Knots--To Be Untied Without Prejudice — 2:04
23. 23 - PART III. Chapter 2: A Board of Guardians — 6:15
24. 24 - PART III. Chapter 3: "The World Is My Parish" — 1:56

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