Off-hand Sketches: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Off-hand Sketches, credited to T.S. Arthur, 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 Off-hand Sketches, by T.S. Arthur. The reader cannot but smile at some of the phases of life presented in this volume. Yet the smile will, in no case, the author thinks, be at the expense of humanity, good feeling, or virtue. Many of the incidents given, are facts embellished by a few touches of fancy. In all, lessons may be read that some, at least, will do well to lay to heart. (Summary by the author)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Off-hand Sketches
• Author credits: T.S. Arthur
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 5:02:34

Catalogue topics

• Fiction
• Humor

Track guide

1. 01 Preface and The Circuit-Preacher — 25:37
2. 02 The Protest — 16:09
3. 03 Retrenchment; Or, What A Man Saved By Stopping His Newspaper — 16:13
4. 04 Hunting Up A Testimonial — 9:23
5. 05 Trying To Be A Gentleman — 11:05
6. 06 Taking A Prescription — 8:59
7. 07 The Yankee And The Dutchman; Or, I'll Give Or Take — 14:29
8. 08 A Tipsy Parson — 12:00
9. 09 Much Ado About Nothing; Or, The Reason Why Mrs. Todd Didn't Speak To Mrs. Jones — 17:18
10. 10 Almost A Tragedy — 22:08
11. 11 That John Mason — 18:14
12. 12 A New Way To Collect An Old Debt — 26:50
13. 13 A Shocking Bad Memory — 11:10
14. 14 Driving A Hard Bargain — 13:45
15. 15 Out Of The Frying-Pan Into The Fire; Or, The Love Of A House — 13:07
16. 16 Marrying A Count — 19:16
17. 17 Job's Comforters; Or, The Lady With Nerves — 22:15
18. 18 The Code Of Honour — 12:21
19. 19 Treating A Case Actively. A Physician's Story. — 12:20

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