Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor, credited to James Whitcomb Riley; Bill Nye, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor by James Whitcomb Riley; Bill Nye. Read in English by DrPGould; Stu Hollowell; RecordingPerson; Tom Penn; Cyndy; Sean McElrath; Michael Fassio; Stacy Simon; Kate Follis; Annyiee Hill; Jason in Panama; April6090; tovarisch; brianna; cathicol "What this country needs, aside from a new Indian policy and a style of poison for children which will be liable to kill rats if they eat it by accident, is a Railway Guide which will be just as good two years ago as it was next spring—a Railway Guide, if you please, which shall not be cursed by a plethora of facts, or poisoned with information—a Railway Guide that shall be rich with doubts and lighted up with miserable apprehensions. In other Railway Guides, pleasing fancy, poesy and literary beauty, have been throttled at the very threshold of success, by a wild incontinence of facts, figures, asterisks and references to meal stations. For this reason a guide has been built at our own shops and on a new plan. It is the literary piece de resistance of the age in which we live. It will not permit information to creep in and mar the reader's enjoyment of the scenery. It contains no railroad map which is grossly inaccurate. It has no time-table in it which has outlived its uselessness. It does not prohibit passengers from riding on the platform while the cars are in motion. It permits every one to do just as he pleases and rather encourages him in taking that course." - Bill Nye

Recording facts

• Recording title: Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor
• Author credits: James Whitcomb Riley; Bill Nye
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 62
• Listed recording duration: 4:49:35

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• poem
• humour
• USA
• stories
• wit
• prose
• fun

Opening tracks: first 24 of 62

1. 01 - Biographical — 6:43
2. 02 - Why it was done — 4:16
3. 03 - Where He First Met His Parents — 4:48
4. 04 - Never Talk Back — 0:59
5. 05 - The Gruesome Ballad of Mr. Squincher — 1:22
6. 06 - Anecdotes of Jay Gould — 9:17
7. 07 - A Fall Crick View of the Earthquake — 2:07
8. 08 - August — 1:15
9. 09 - Julius Caesar in Town — 8:32
10. 10 - His First Womern — 1:26
11. 11 - This Man Jones — 3:17
12. 12 - How to Hunt the Fox — 13:56
13. 13 - The Boy Friend — 1:45
14. 14 - A Letter of Acceptance — 11:45
15. 15 - In the Afternoon — 1:21
16. 16 - The Rise and Fall of William Johnson — 11:27
17. 17 - From Delphi to Camden — 2:28
18. 18 - The Grammatical Boy — 5:45
19. 19 - Craqueodoom — 1:16
20. 20 - The Chemist of the Carolinas — 9:40
21. 21 - His Crazy-Bone — 0:53
22. 22 - Prying Open the Future — 8:00
23. 23 - Mr. Silberberg — 2:38
24. 24 - Spirits at Home — 2:46

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