Plum Pudding: Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
Christopher Morley
39 chapters · 6 h 50 min · English
Read by Larry Wilson, Jim Gallagher, Tom Parker, Greg Giordano, Kathleen Moore, Nan Dodge and others
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Chrisopher Morley was an American literary luminary whose prolific writings included novels, essays, poetry, plays and great journalistic output. This collection of essays is wide ranging in topics, many with his characteristic wit. - Summary by Larry Wilson
Chapters
1 The Perfect Reader 5 min 2 The Autogenesis of a Poet 22 min 3 The Old Reliable 6 min 4 In Memoriam, Francis Barton Gummere 13 min 5 Adventures at Lunch Time 10 min 6 Secret Transactions of the Three Hours for Lunch Club 11 min 7 Initiation 8 min 8 Creed of the Three Hours for Lunch Club 7 min 9 A Preface to the Profession of Journalism 10 min 10 Fulton Street, and Walt Whitman 11 min 11 McSorley's 10 min 12 A Portrait 7 min 13 Going to Philadelphia 24 min 14 Our Tricolour Tie 17 min 15 The Club of Abandoned Husbands 9 min 16 West Broadway 10 min 17 The Rudeness of Poets 6 min 18 1100 Words 7 min 19 Some Inns 13 min 20 The Club in Hoboken 9 min 21 The Club at Its Worst 6 min 22 A Suburban Sentimentalist 9 min 23 Gissing 8 min 24 A Dialogue 6 min 25 A Dialogue at the Gasthof zum Ochsene 8 min 26 Mr. Conrad's New Preface 7 min 27 The Little House 5 min 28 Tadpoles 7 min 29 Magic in Salamis 9 min 30 Consider the Commuter 24 min 31 The Permanence of Poetry 5 min 32 Books of the Sea 18 min 33 Fallacious Meditations on Criticism 18 min 34 Letting Out the Furnace 6 min 35 By the Fireplace 6 min 36 A City Note-Book 32 min 37 Thoughts in the Subway 8 min 38 Dempsey vs. Carpentier 8 min 39 A Letter to a Sea Captain 6 min
