The Book of This and That: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Book of This and That by Robert Lynd: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 28 original MP3 tracks, 5:45:32 running time and a link to listen.
The Book of This and That, credited to Robert Lynd, 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 The Book of This and That by Robert Lynd. Read in English by Tom Penn; CoMo290; drandall; Tom Daley; Dietrich Weber; DrPGould; realisticspeakers; Larry Wilson; Kathleen Moore; Devorah Allen; AnnaLisa Bodtker; Greg Giordano From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essays on topics as wide ranging as stupidity, Christmas, spring fashions, and the beauty of statistics. - Summary by Larry Wilson
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Book of This and That
- Author credits: Robert Lynd
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 28
- Listed recording duration: 5:45:32
Catalogue topics
- satire
- humor
Opening tracks: first 24 of 28
- 01 - Suspicion — 11:00
- 02 - On Good Resolutions — 11:08
- 03 - The Sin of Dancing — 10:09
- 04 - Thoughts at a Tango Tea — 14:17
- 05 - The Humours of Murder — 14:58
- 06 - The Decline and Fall of Hell — 9:05
- 07 - On Cheerful Readers — 10:55
- 08 - St G. B. S. and the Bishop — 10:44
- 09 - Stupidity — 14:37
- 10 - Waste — 12:56
- 11 - On Christmas — 12:04
- 12 - On Demagogues — 12:03
- 13 - On Coincidences — 13:42
- 14 - On Indignation — 12:22
- 15 - The Heart of Mr Galsworthy — 13:11
- 16 - Spring Fashions — 13:31
- 17 - On Black Cats — 9:52
- 18 - On Being Shocked — 14:06
- 19 - Confessions — 11:27
- 20 - The Terrors of Politics — 11:33
- 21 - On Disasters — 13:55
- 22 - The Rights of Murder — 12:34
- 23 - The Humour of Hoaxes — 12:37
- 24 - Anatole France — 11:50
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