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The Book of This and That

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(2,714 Sterne; 7 Bewertungen)

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 (5 hr 45 min)

Chapters

Suspicion

11:00

Read by Tom Penn

On Good Resolutions

11:08

Read by Tom Penn

The Sin of Dancing

10:09

Read by CoMo290

Thoughts at a Tango Tea

14:17

Read by drandall

The Humours of Murder

14:58

Read by Skip Corris

The Decline and Fall of Hell

9:05

Read by CoMo290

On Cheerful Readers

10:55

Read by Dietrich Weber

St G. B. S. and the Bishop

10:44

Read by DrPGould

Stupidity

14:37

Read by realisticspeakers

Waste

12:56

Read by realisticspeakers

On Christmas

12:04

Read by Larry Wilson

On Demagogues

12:03

Read by Skip Corris

On Coincidences

13:42

Read by Kathleen Moore

On Indignation

12:22

Read by Kathleen Moore

The Heart of Mr Galsworthy

13:11

Read by Kathleen Moore

Spring Fashions

13:31

Read by drandall

On Black Cats

9:52

Read by Devorah Allen

On Being Shocked

14:06

Read by AnnaLisa Bodtker

Confessions

11:27

Read by Skip Corris

The Terrors of Politics

11:33

Read by Greg Giordano

On Disasters

13:55

Read by Greg Giordano

The Rights of Murder

12:34

Read by Skip Corris

The Humour of Hoaxes

12:37

Read by Greg Giordano

Anatole France

11:50

Read by Skip Corris

The Sea

13:21

Read by Larry Wilson

The Futurists

14:05

Read by realisticspeakers

A Defence of Critics

11:12

Read by Tom Penn

On the Beauty of Statistics

12:18

Read by Tom Penn

Bewertungen

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(3,5 Sterne)

This curmudgeonly book is entertaining, but sometimes puzzling. The references to 100-year-old scandals, the shock still reverberating over the dangers of walzing, and the outdated (but possibly unconscious) attitude toward "class" have little to do with the 21st century. But there are a couple of essays that are spot on still: Waste and Statistics. If he thought waste was dreadful around the end of the 19th century... And we are, of course, inundated in Statistics, and every PhD candidate churns up more! All the narration is good, with no technical issues.