The Relentless City by E. F. Benson (1867 - 1940) Genre(s): Satire Read by: Beeswaxcandle in English Cover design by TriciaG. Chapters: 00:00:00 - 17 - Chapte XVII 00:38:38 - 18 - Chapter XVIII 00:58:25 - 19 - Epilogue A satiric novel of manners written in Benson's classic style of gently poking fun at class structures and the people who fill them. This time he includes New York, London, and the railways of the English countryside. - Summary by Beeswaxcandle More information: https://librivox.org/the-relentless-city-by-e-f-benson/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)

Pipefuls by Christopher MORLEY (1890 - 1957) Genre(s): Single Author Collections Read by: klbonds, Highlandoaks, Chessie Joy, Daryl Wor, Mike Pelton, asterix, Pamela Krantz, Richard Kilmer, deongines, Greg Giordano, MACase, Tom Merritt, NatalieOram in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - 01 - On Making Friends 00:11:07 - 02 - 02 - Thoughts on Cider 00:24:37 - 03 - 03 - One-Night Stands 00:36:14 - 04 - 04 - The Owl Train 00:41:47 - 05 - 05 - Safety Pins 00:48:15 - 06 - 06 - Confessions of a 'Colyumist' 00:59:45 - 07 - 07 - Moving 01:09:02 - 08 - 08 - Surf Fishing 01:14:12 - 09 - 09 - 'Idolatry' 01:27:23 - 10 - 10 - The First Commencement Address 01:31:48 - 11 - 11 - The Downfall of George Snipe 01:36:12 - 12 - 12 - Meditations of a Bookseller 01:42:26 - 13 - 13 - If Buying a Meal Were Like Buying a House 01:46:29 - 14 - 14 - Adventures in High Finance 01:50:52 - 15 - 15 - On Visiting Bookshops 01:58:37 - 16 - 16 - A Discovery 02:11:01 - 17 - 17 - Silas Orrin Howes 02:19:28 - 18 - 18 - Joyce Kilmer 02:40:03 - 19 - 19 - An Early Train 02:49:15 - 20 - 20 - Ridge Avenue 02:58:31 - 21 - 21 - The University and the Urchin 03:07:34 - 22 - 22 - Pine Street 03:14:44 - 23 - 23 - Pershing in Philadelphia 03:24:55 - 24 - 24 - Fall Fever 03:31:19 - 25 - 25 - Two Days Before Christmas 03:40:01 - 26 - 26 - In West Philadelphia 03:48:54 - 27 - 27 - Horace Traubel 03:52:53 - 28 - 28 - The Anatomy of Manhattan 04:01:28 - 29 - 29 - Vesey Street 04:12:59 - 30 - 30 - Brooklyn Bridge 04:21:09 - 31 - 31 - Three Hours for Lunch 04:30:10 - 32 - 32 - Passage from Some Memoirs 04:40:55 - 33 - 33 - First Lessons in Clowning 04:55:26 - 34 - 34 - House Hunting 05:00:53 - 35 - 35 - Long Island Revisited 05:11:44 - 36 - 36 - On Being in a Hurry 05:19:41 - 37 - 37 - Confessions of a Human Globule 05:21:58 - 38 - 38 - Notes on a Fifth Avenue Bus 05:24:37 - 39 - 39 - Sunday Morning 05:33:14 - 40 - 40 - Venison Pasty 05:39:50 - 41 - 41 - Grand Avenue, Brooklyn 05:45:59 - 42 - 42 - On Waiting for the Curtain to Go Up 05:50:01 - 43 - 43 - Musings of John Mistletoe 05:52:28 - 44 - 44 - The World's Most Famous Oration 05:54:45 - 45 - 45 - On Laziness 06:02:18 - 46 - 46 - Teaching the Prince to Take Notes 06:07:29 - 47 - 47 - A City Notebook 06:16:29 - 48 - 48 - On Going to Bed A delightful collection of 48 essays on various topics of the human condition that caught his fancy. Witty, insightful and funny of course and on occasion thought provoking and even disturbing. From the preface 'These sketches gave me pain to write; they will give the judicious patron pain to read; therefore we are quits. I think, as I look over their slattern paragraphs, of that most tragic hour—it falls about 4 p. m. in the office of an evening newspaper—when the unhappy compiler tries to round up the broodings of the day and still get home in time for supper. And yet perhaps the will-to-live is in them, for are they not a naked exhibit of the antics a man will commit in order to earn a living? In extenuation it may be pleaded that none of them are so long that they may not be mitigated by an accompanying pipe of tobacco.' (Summary by phil chenevert) More information: http://librivox.org/pipefuls-by-christopher-morley/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)