Literary Lapses

Literary Lapses

LibriVox · Audiobook · 41 episodes

Short sketches relating the humourous side of life in 1910. "Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the written word than any other living author. One may say he is one of the greatest jesters, the greatest humorist of the age." – A. P. Herbert (Summary by TriciaG and Wikipedia)

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Episodes

01 - My Financial Career

Episode 1 · 6:04
02 - Lord Oxhead's Secret

Episode 2 · 13:46
03 - Boarding-house Geometry

Episode 3 · 2:21
04 - The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones

Episode 4 · 6:13
05 - A Christmas Letter

Episode 5 · 2:39
06 - How to Make a Million Dollars

Episode 6 · 8:56
07 - How to Live to Be 200

Episode 7 · 7:49
08 - How to Avoid Getting Married

Episode 8 · 7:23
09 - How to Be a Doctor

Episode 9 · 9:10
10 - The New Food

Episode 10 · 2:54
11 - A New Pathology

Episode 11 · 8:28
12 - The Poet Answered

Episode 12 · 2:24
13 - The Force of Statistics

Episode 13 · 3:02
14 - Men Who Have Shaved Me

Episode 14 · 9:24
15 - Getting the Thread of It

Episode 15 · 7:17
16 - Telling His Faults

Episode 16 · 2:50
17 - Winter Pastimes

Episode 17 · 8:36
18 - Number Fifty-Six

Episode 18 · 14:48
19 - Aristocratic Education

Episode 19 · 4:49
20 - The Conjurer's Revenge

Episode 20 · 5:02
21 - Hints to Travellers

Episode 21 · 5:51
22 - A Manual of Education

Episode 22 · 5:07
23 - Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas

Episode 23 · 6:48
24 - The Life of John Smith

Episode 24 · 8:38
25 - On Collecting Things

Episode 25 · 6:04
26 - Society Chit-Chat

Episode 26 · 6:54
27 - Insurance Up to Date

Episode 27 · 3:26
28 - Borrowing a Match

Episode 28 · 3:11
29 - A Lesson in Fiction

Episode 29 · 7:55
30 - Helping the Armenians

Episode 30 · 2:46
31 - A Study in Still Life: The Country Hotel

Episode 31 · 3:51
32 - An Experiment with Policeman Hogan

Episode 32 · 12:16
33 - The Passing of the Poet

Episode 33 · 12:13
34 - Self-Made Men

Episode 34 · 6:44
35 - A Model Dialogue

Episode 35 · 3:13
36 - Back to the Bush

Episode 36 · 11:03
37 - Reflections on Riding

Episode 37 · 4:26
38 - Saloonio

Episode 38 · 6:44
39 - Half-Hours with the Poets

Episode 39 · 15:43
40 - A, B, and C

Episode 40 · 11:35
41 - Acknowledgments

Episode 41 · 1:53