Plum Pudding (version 2)
Christopher Morley
40 chapters · 6 h 57 min · English
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Humor · Miscellaneous
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Christopher Morley: A modern humorist with the tang of an Elizabethan. Plum Pudding: Thus Mr. Morley entitles his new volume, in which he has occupied himself with books in particular, but also with divers other ingredients such as city and suburban incidents, women, dogs, children, tadpoles, and so on.
Chapters
1 Dedication and Foreword 1 min 2 The Perfect Reader 6 min 3 The Autogenesis of a Poet 21 min 4 The Old Reliable 6 min 5 In Memoriam Francis Barton Gummere 10 min 6 Adventures at Lunch Time 11 min 7 Secret Transactions of the Three Hours for Lunch Club 10 min 8 Initiation 9 min 9 Creed of the Three Hours for Lunch Club 7 min 10 A Preface to the Profession of Journalism 9 min 11 Fulton Street, and Walt Whitman 12 min 12 McSorley's 11 min 13 A Portrait 7 min 14 Going to Philadelphia 25 min 15 Our Tricolour Tie 18 min 16 The Club of Abandoned Husbands 8 min 17 West Broadway 10 min 18 The Rudeness of Poets 7 min 19 1100 Words 7 min 20 Some Inns 16 min 21 The Club in Hoboken 9 min 22 The Club at its Worst 5 min 23 A Suburban Sentimentalist 9 min 24 Gissing 8 min 25 A Dialogue 6 min 26 At the Gasthof Zum Ochsen 6 min 27 Mr Conrad's New Preface 7 min 28 The Little House 6 min 29 Tadpoles 6 min 30 Magic in Salamis 10 min 31 Consider the Commuter 20 min 32 The Permanence of Poetry 6 min 33 Books of the Sea 21 min 34 Fallacious Meditations on Criticism 16 min 35 Letting out the Furnace 6 min 36 By the Fireplace 7 min 37 A City Note-Book 35 min 38 Thoughts in the Subway 9 min 39 Dempsey vs. Carpentier 9 min 40 A Letter To A Sea Captain (To D.W.B.) 6 min