Book of This and That

Book of This and That

LibriVox · Audiobook · 28 episodes

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

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Episodes

Suspicion

Episode 1 · 11:00
On Good Resolutions

Episode 2 · 11:08
The Sin of Dancing

Episode 3 · 10:09
Thoughts at a Tango Tea

Episode 4 · 14:17
The Humours of Murder

Episode 5 · 14:58
The Decline and Fall of Hell

Episode 6 · 9:05
On Cheerful Readers

Episode 7 · 10:55
St G. B. S. and the Bishop

Episode 8 · 10:44
Stupidity

Episode 9 · 14:37
Waste

Episode 10 · 12:56
On Christmas

Episode 11 · 12:04
On Demagogues

Episode 12 · 12:03
On Coincidences

Episode 13 · 13:42
On Indignation

Episode 14 · 12:22
The Heart of Mr Galsworthy

Episode 15 · 13:11
Spring Fashions

Episode 16 · 13:31
On Black Cats

Episode 17 · 9:52
On Being Shocked

Episode 18 · 14:06
Confessions

Episode 19 · 11:27
The Terrors of Politics

Episode 20 · 11:33
On Disasters

Episode 21 · 13:55
The Rights of Murder

Episode 22 · 12:34
The Humour of Hoaxes

Episode 23 · 12:37
Anatole France

Episode 24 · 11:50
The Sea

Episode 25 · 13:21
The Futurists

Episode 26 · 14:05
A Defence of Critics

Episode 27 · 11:12
On the Beauty of Statistics

Episode 28 · 12:18