Shandygaff
Christopher Morley
Read by David Wales
A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life & Letters, interspersed with Short Stories & Skits, the whole most Diverting to the Reader. (Title page) SHANDYGAFF: a very refreshing drink, being a mixture of bitter ale or beer and ginger-beer, commonly drunk by the lower classes in England, and by strolling tinkers, low church parsons, newspaper men, journalists, and prizefighters. Said to have been invented by Henry VIII as a solace for his matrimonial difficulties. It is believed that a continual bibbing of shandygaff saps the will, the nerves, the resolution, and the finer faculties, but there are those who will abide no other tipple. (John Mistletoe: Dictionary of Deplorable Facts.) Christopher Morley (1890 – 1957) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. Here are thirty-five of his humorous essays. - Summary by Book Preface and david wales (7 hr 46 min)
Chapters
Introductory: Titles And Dedications; The Song Of Shandygaff | 4:04 | Read by David Wales |
A Question Of Plumage | 26:59 | Read by David Wales |
Don Marquis | 34:50 | Read by David Wales |
The Art Of Walking | 22:58 | Read by David Wales |
Rupert Brooke | 21:39 | Read by David Wales |
The Man | 14:10 | Read by David Wales |
The Head Of The Firm | 10:44 | Read by David Wales |
17 Heriot Row | 16:10 | Read by David Wales |
Frank Confessions Of A Publisher's Reader | 13:49 | Read by David Wales |
William McFee | 23:55 | Read by David Wales |
Rhubarb | 13:23 | Read by David Wales |
The Haunting Beauty Of Strychnine | 7:14 | Read by David Wales |
Ingo | 11:08 | Read by David Wales |
Housebroken | 5:16 | Read by David Wales |
The Hilarity Of Hilaire | 22:38 | Read by David Wales |
A Casual Of The Sea | 18:10 | Read by David Wales |
The Last Pipe | 18:07 | Read by David Wales |
Time To Light The Furnace | 8:32 | Read by David Wales |
My Friend | 5:01 | Read by David Wales |
A Poet Of Sad Vigils | 24:45 | Read by David Wales |
Trivia | 10:41 | Read by David Wales |
Prefaces | 12:46 | Read by David Wales |
The Skipper | 11:11 | Read by David Wales |
A Friend Of Fitzgerald | 20:00 | Read by David Wales |
A Venture In Mysticism | 8:19 | Read by David Wales |
An Oxford Landlady | 5:47 | Read by David Wales |
Peacock Pie | 8:54 | Read by David Wales |
The Literary Pawnshop | 7:17 | Read by David Wales |
A Morning In Marathon | 6:52 | Read by David Wales |
The American House Of Lords | 3:17 | Read by David Wales |
Cotswold Winds | 5:21 | Read by David Wales |
Clouds | 5:09 | Read by David Wales |
Unhealthy | 12:28 | Read by David Wales |
Confessions Of A Smoker | 8:26 | Read by David Wales |
Hay Febrifuge | 12:34 | Read by David Wales |
Appendix: Suggestions For Teachers | 4:23 | Read by David Wales |
Reviews
Julieg
I found this very entertaining. the reader did an excellent job