Mr. Punch's model music-hall songs & dramas: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Mr. Punch's model music-hall songs & dramas, credited to F. Anstey, 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 Mr. Punch's model music-hall songs & dramas by F. Anstey. Read in English by Don W. Jenkins F. Anstey was the nom de plume of Thomas Anstey Guthrie, a Londoner who was trained for the bar but found success as a writer of humorous pieces for Punch and humorous novels. Mr. Punch's Model Music Hall is a collection of humorous pieces written for Punch, divided into songs and dramas. In his usual fashion, Mr. Anstey captured the tone of his times and then exaggerated whatever was already absurd to entertain and give pointed commentary at the same time. - Summary by Don W. Jenkins

Recording facts

• Recording title: Mr. Punch's model music-hall songs & dramas
• Author credits: F. Anstey
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 4:21:17

Catalogue topics

• satire
• humor
• fiction
• British
• anstey

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 00 - Introduction — 15:12
2. 01 - The Patriotic — 5:14
3. 02 - The Topical-Political — 6:16
4. 03 - A Democratic Ditty — 5:56
5. 04 - The Idyllic — 6:33
6. 05 - The Amatory Episode — 9:16
7. 06 - The Chivalrous — 6:40
8. 07 - The Frankly Canaille — 10:05
9. 08 - The Dramatic Scena — 7:15
10. 09 - The Duettists — 8:16
11. 10 - Disinterested Passion — 9:35
12. 11 - The Panygeric Patter — 7:08
13. 12 - The Plaintively Pathetic — 5:45
14. 13 - The Military Impersonator — 5:42
15. 14 - The Little Crossing Sweeper — 11:11
16. 15 - Joe, the Jam-Eater — 11:26
17. 16 - The Man Trap — 9:51
18. 17 - The Fatal Pin — 10:58
19. 18 - Brunette and Blanchidine — 10:30
20. 19 - Coming of Age — 13:30
21. 20 - Reclaimed — 21:39
22. 21 - Jack Parker — 9:15
23. 22 - Under the Harrow — 21:53
24. 23 - Tommy and His Sister Jane — 10:03

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