Never: A Handbook For The Uninitiated And Inexperienced Aspirants To Refined Society's Giddy Heights And Glittering Attainments: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Never: A Handbook For The Uninitiated And Inexperienced Aspirants To Refined Society's Giddy Heights And Glittering Attainments, credited to Nathan Dane Urner, 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 Never: A Handbook For The Uninitiated And Inexperienced Aspirants To Refined Society's Giddy Heights And Glittering Attainments by Nathan Dane Urner. Read in English by David Wales An 1883 tongue-in-cheek spoof of manners and mannerisms of “society”. ‘the “Open Sesame” to that jealously-guarded realm,—good society,—in which you aspire to circulate freely and shine with becoming luster…. And I, the author of this code of warnings, as truly say unto you, that a contemptuous disregard of the same will be likely to lead you into mortification and embarrassment, if not into being incontinently kicked out of doors…. It will be, in truth, a bosom companion in the happiest sense of the term, a mutely eloquent monitor of deportment, a still, small voice as to what is in good form and what is not.’ - Summary by Book Preface (Prelude) and david wales

Recording facts

• Recording title: Never: A Handbook For The Uninitiated And Inexperienced Aspirants To Refined Society's Giddy Heights And Glittering Attainments
• Author credits: Nathan Dane Urner
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 9
• Listed recording duration: 1:08:16

Catalogue topics

• humor
• parody
• society
• high society
• spoof

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface (Prelude) — 3:05
2. 01 - Making And Receiving Calls — 8:52
3. 02 - At Breakfast — 6:09
4. 03 - At Luncheon — 4:18
5. 04 - At Dinner — 9:46
6. 05 - While Walking — 6:21
7. 06 - In The Use Of Language — 13:08
8. 07 - Dress And Personal Habits — 10:09
9. 08 - At Public Entertainments — 6:28

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