Shandygaff: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Shandygaff, 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 Shandygaff by Christopher Morley. Read in English by David Wales A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life & Letters, interspersed with Short Stories & Skits, the whole most Diverting to the Reader. (Title page) SHANDYGAFF: a very refreshing drink, being a mixture of bitter ale or beer and ginger-beer, commonly drunk by the lower classes in England, and by strolling tinkers, low church parsons, newspaper men, journalists, and prizefighters. Said to have been invented by Henry VIII as a solace for his matrimonial difficulties. It is believed that a continual bibbing of shandygaff saps the will, the nerves, the resolution, and the finer faculties, but there are those who will abide no other tipple. (John Mistletoe: Dictionary of Deplorable Facts.) Christopher Morley (1890 – 1957) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. Here are thirty-five of his humorous essays. - Summary by Book Preface and david wales

Recording facts

• Recording title: Shandygaff
• Author credits: Christopher Morley
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 36
• Listed recording duration: 7:46:57

Catalogue topics

• humor
• essays
• twentieth century

Opening tracks: first 24 of 36

1. 00 - Introductory: Titles And Dedications; The Song Of Shandygaff — 4:04
2. 01 - A Question Of Plumage — 26:59
3. 02 - Don Marquis — 34:50
4. 03 - The Art Of Walking — 22:58
5. 04 - Rupert Brooke — 21:39
6. 05 - The Man — 14:10
7. 06 - The Head Of The Firm — 10:44
8. 07 - 17 Heriot Row — 16:10
9. 08 - Frank Confessions Of A Publisher's Reader — 13:49
10. 09 - William McFee — 23:55
11. 10 - Rhubarb — 13:23
12. 11 - The Haunting Beauty Of Strychnine — 7:13
13. 12 - Ingo — 11:08
14. 13 - Housebroken — 5:16
15. 14 - The Hilarity Of Hilaire — 22:38
16. 15 - A Casual Of The Sea — 18:10
17. 16 - The Last Pipe — 18:07
18. 17 - Time To Light The Furnace — 8:32
19. 18 - My Friend — 5:01
20. 19 - A Poet Of Sad Vigils — 24:45
21. 20 - Trivia — 10:41
22. 21 - Prefaces — 12:46
23. 22 - The Skipper — 11:11
24. 23 - A Friend Of Fitzgerald — 20:00

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