Pipefuls: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Pipefuls, credited to Christopher Morley, 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 PIPEFULS, by Christopher Morley. A delightful collection of 48 essays on various topics of the human condition that caught his fancy. Witty, insightful and funny of course and on occasion thought provoking and even disturbing. From the preface "These sketches gave me pain to write; they will give the judicious patron pain to read; therefore we are quits. I think, as I look over their slattern paragraphs, of that most tragic hour—it falls about 4 p. m. in the office of an evening newspaper—when the unhappy compiler tries to round up the broodings of the day and still get home in time for supper. And yet perhaps the will-to-live is in them, for are they not a naked exhibit of the antics a man will commit in order to earn a living? In extenuation it may be pleaded that none of them are so long that they may not be mitigated by an accompanying pipe of tobacco." (Summary by phil chenevert)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Pipefuls
• Author credits: Christopher Morley
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 48
• Listed recording duration: 6:24:19

Catalogue topics

• essays
• humor

Opening tracks: first 24 of 48

1. 01 - On Making Friends — 11:08
2. 02 - Thoughts on Cider — 13:30
3. 03 - One-Night Stands — 11:37
4. 04 - The Owl Train — 5:33
5. 05 - Safety Pins — 6:28
6. 06 - Confessions of a “Colyumist” — 11:30
7. 07 - Moving — 9:18
8. 08 - Surf Fishing — 5:09
9. 09 - Idolatry — 13:12
10. 10 - The First Commencement Address — 4:24
11. 11 - The Downfall of George Snipe — 4:25
12. 12 - Meditations of a Bookseller — 6:14
13. 13 - If Buying a Meal Were Like Buying a House — 4:03
14. 14 - Adventures in High Finance — 4:23
15. 15 - On Visiting Bookshops — 7:45
16. 16 - A Discovery — 12:24
17. 17 - Silas Orrin Howes — 8:27
18. 18 - Joyce Kilmer — 20:35
19. 19 - An Early Train — 9:12
20. 20 - Ridge Avenue — 9:16
21. 21 - the University and the Urchin — 9:04
22. 22 - Pine Street — 7:10
23. 23 - Pershing in Philadelphia — 10:11
24. 24 - Fall Fever — 6:24

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