The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale For Tired Men: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale For Tired Men, credited to Max Beerbohm, 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 Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale For Tired Men by Max Beerbohm. Read in English by David Wales Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist. The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tired Men is a short story with moral implications. Beerbohm's tale is a lighter, more humorous version of Oscar Wilde's classic tale of moral degeneration, The Picture of Dorian Gray. The Happy Hypocrite tells the story of a man who deceives a woman with a mask in order to marry her. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale For Tired Men
• Author credits: Max Beerbohm
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 5
• Listed recording duration: 1:11:20

Catalogue topics

• humor
• parody
• picture of dorian gray

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter 1 — 22:15
2. 02 - Chapter 2 — 15:19
3. 03 - Chapter 3 — 16:21
4. 04 - Chapter 4 — 5:47
5. 05 - Chapter 5 — 11:38

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