The Gentle Grafter: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Gentle Grafter by O. Henry: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 14 original MP3 tracks, 4:36:39 running time and a link to listen.
The Gentle Grafter, credited to O. Henry, 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 Gentle Grafter, by O. Henry. Read by Leslie Walden. If Jefferson "Parleyvoo" Pickens had appeared in print just a few years later, he might have been the "Gentle Grifter" instead of the "Gentle Grafter", the name O. Henry picked for him. His situation as an ethical graft artist gives Jeff an extra impediment in pursuing his craft, but he never wanted it to be too easy. The result is fourteen delightful tales for us and a number of new partners for him. With those partners (he always has at least one) he works his way through a number of confidence games. Some they win, some they lose, some go into extra innings. They seem never to end just the way you figure they will. In the end he conquers almost all, except for the English language, which often seems to defeat him. (Intro by Leslie Walden)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Gentle Grafter
- Author credits: O. Henry
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 14
- Listed recording duration: 4:36:39
Catalogue topics
- fiction
- humor
- irony
- malapropism
- confidence games
- satire
- short stories
Track guide
- 01 The Octopus Marooned — 15:52
- 02 Jeff Peters as Personal Magnet — 14:51
- 03 Modern Rural Sports — 16:30
- 04 The Chair of Philanthromathematics — 16:23
- 05 The Hand that Riles the World — 14:20
- 06 The Exact Science of Matrimony — 14:36
- 07 A Midsummer Masquerade — 14:31
- 08 Shearinbg the Wolf — 13:57
- 09 Innocents of Broadway — 15:32
- 10 Conscience in Art — 14:07
- 11 The man Higher Up — 31:15
- 12 A Tempered Wind — 40:48
- 13 Hostages to Momus — 31:51
- 14 The Ethics of Pig — 22:06
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