Turns About Town: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Turns About Town, credited to Robert Cortes Holliday, 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 Turns About Town by Robert Cortes Holliday. Read by Tom Penn Robert Cortes Holliday was an early 20th century essayist, editor, and librarian. Writer Christopher Morley said that he "has the genuine gift of the personal essay, mellow, fluent, and pleasantly eccentric." Most of these pleasant pieces appeared originally in various American newspapers and magazines. - Summary by Tom Penn

Recording facts

• Recording title: Turns About Town
• Author credits: Robert Cortes Holliday
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 29
• Listed recording duration: 8:27:44

Catalogue topics

• humor
• essays

Opening tracks: first 24 of 29

1. 01 - The Hotel Guest — 12:36
2. 02 - A Humorist Misfits at a Murder Trial — 18:15
3. 03 - Queer Thing, Bout Undertakers Shops — 13:24
4. 04 - The Haircut that Went to My Head — 12:56
5. 05 - Seeing Mr. Chesterton — 21:50
6. 06 - When is a Great City a Small Village? — 13:20
7. 07 - The Unusualness of Parisian Philadelphia — 13:10
8. 08 - Our Last Social Engagement as a Fine Art — 12:43
9. 09 - Writing in Rooms — 23:43
10. 10 - Taking the Air in San Francisco — 13:13
11. 11 - Bidding Mr. Chesterton Good-Bye — 24:20
12. 12 - No System at all to the Human System — 13:20
13. 13 - Seeing the Situations Wanted Scene — 17:02
14. 14 - Literary Lives — 16:37
15. 15 - So Very Theatrical — 12:35
16. 16 - Our Steeplejack of the Seven Arts — 19:54
17. 17 - Former Tenant of His Room — 11:41
18. 18 - Only She Was There — 16:22
19. 19 - A Humorists Note-Book — 16:24
20. 20 - Including Studies of Traffic Cops — 11:05
21. 21 - Three Words about Literature — 7:41
22. 22 - Recollections of Landladies — 21:31
23. 23 - An Idiosyncrasy — 24:44
24. 24 - The Sexless Camera — 7:02

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