Literary Lapses: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacock: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 41 original MP3 tracks, 4:40:16 running time and a link to listen.
Literary Lapses, credited to Stephen Leacock, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of Literary Lapses, by Stephen Leacock. Read by TriciaG. Short sketches relating the humourous side of life in 1910. "Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the written word than any other living author. One may say he is one of the greatest jesters, the greatest humorist of the age." – A. P. Herbert (Summary by TriciaG and Wikipedia)
Recording facts
- Recording title: Literary Lapses
- Author credits: Stephen Leacock
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 41
- Listed recording duration: 4:40:16
Catalogue topics
- humor
- comedy
- anecdotes
Opening tracks: first 24 of 41
- 01 - My Financial Career — 6:04
- 02 - Lord Oxhead's Secret — 13:47
- 03 - Boarding-house Geometry — 2:21
- 04 - The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones — 6:14
- 05 - A Christmas Letter — 2:39
- 06 - How to Make a Million Dollars — 8:56
- 07 - How to Live to Be 200 — 7:50
- 08 - How to Avoid Getting Married — 7:23
- 09 - How to Be a Doctor — 9:11
- 10 - The New Food — 2:55
- 11 - A New Pathology — 8:28
- 12 - The Poet Answered — 2:25
- 13 - The Force of Statistics — 3:02
- 14 - Men Who Have Shaved Me — 9:25
- 15 - Getting the Thread of It — 7:18
- 16 - Telling His Faults — 2:51
- 17 - Winter Pastimes — 8:37
- 18 - Number Fifty-Six — 14:48
- 19 - Aristocratic Education — 4:49
- 20 - The Conjurer's Revenge — 5:03
- 21 - Hints to Travellers — 5:51
- 22 - A Manual of Education — 5:07
- 23 - Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas — 6:49
- 24 - The Life of John Smith — 8:38
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