Walking-Stick Papers: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Walking-Stick Papers, 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 Walking-Stick Papers by Robert Cortes Holliday. Read in English by David Wales Robert Cortes Holliday (1880 – 1947) was an American writer and literary editor. Writer and friend, Christopher Morley, wrote of Holliday: "[he] has the genuine gift of the personal essay, mellow, fluent, and pleasantly eccentric." This is a 1918 selection of his essays. - Summary by david wales

Recording facts

• Recording title: Walking-Stick Papers
• Author credits: Robert Cortes Holliday
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 6:40:42

Catalogue topics

• essays

Track guide

1. 00 - Prologue: On Carrying A Cane — 19:23
2. 01 - The Fish Reporter — 24:12
3. 02 - On Going On A Journey — 16:47
4. 03 - Going To Art Exhibitions — 23:47
5. 04 - A Roundabout Paper — 17:47
6. 05 - That Reviewer 'Cuss' — 28:25
7. 06 - Literary Levities In London — 16:05
8. 07 - Henry James, Himself — 11:37
9. 08 - Memories Of A Manuscript — 18:45
10. 09 - 'You Are An American' — 18:05
11. 10 - Why Men Can't Read Novels By Women — 16:08
12. 11 - The Dessert Of Life — 20:54
13. 12 - A Clerk May Look At Celebrity — 20:44
14. 13 - Caun't Speak The Language — 17:18
15. 14 - Hunting Lodgings — 9:13
16. 15 - My Friend, The Policeman — 9:37
17. 16 - Help Wanted -- Male, Female — 13:34
18. 17 - Human Municipal Documents — 21:47
19. 18 - As To People — 9:08
20. 19 - Humours Of The Book Shop — 12:06
21. 20 - The Deceased — 17:10
22. 21 - A Town Constitutional — 19:56
23. 22 - Reading After Thirty — 6:00
24. 23 - Epilogue: On Wearing A Hat — 12:14

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