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Modern Essays by Christopher MORLEY (1890 - 1957)
Genre(s): Essays & Short Works

Read by: David Wales in English

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Chapters:
00:00:00 - 00 - Preface
00:09:58 - 01 - American Literature
00:40:41 - 02 - Mary White
00:53:33 - 03 - Niagara Falls
01:08:37 - 04 - The Almost Perfect State
01:24:45 - 05 - The Man O'War's 'er 'usband
01:42:15 - 06 - The Market
01:53:17 - 07 - Holy Ireland
02:14:29 - 08 - A Familiar Preface
02:35:47 - 09 - On Drawing
02:43:44 - 10 - O. Henry
03:06:47 - 11 - The Mowing Of A Field
03:32:14 - 12 - The Student Life
04:01:35 - 13 - The Decline Of The Drama
04:14:33 - 14 - America And The English Tradition
04:24:30 - 15 - The Russian Quarter
04:43:51 - 16 - A Word For Autumn
04:50:41 - 17 - A Clergyman
05:07:38 - 18 - Samuel Butler
05:45:26 - 19 - Bed-Books And Night-Lights
06:01:52 - 20 - The Precept Of Peace
06:19:49 - 21 - On Lying Awake At Night
06:31:00 - 22 - A Woodland Valentine
06:39:50 - 23 - The Elements Of Poetry
06:47:50 - 24 - Nocturne
06:58:55 - 25 - Beer And Cider

Thirty three essays by more or less well-known authors of Britain, the United States, and Canada, each fronted by an introductory paragraph. Early twentieth or late nineteenth centuries. 'I think I can offer you, in this parliament of philomaths [lover of learning], entertainment of the most genuine sort;…as brilliant and sincere work is being done to-day in the essay as in any period of our literature. Accordingly the pieces reprinted here are very diverse. There is the grand manner; there is foolery; there is straightforward literary criticism; there is pathos, politics, and the picturesque. But every selection is, in its own way, a work of art. And I would call the reader's attention to this: that the greater number of these essays were written not by retired æsthetes, but by practising journalists in the harness of the daily or weekly press.' The listener is alerted to the fact that some of the essays have been edited from the original, some lightly, others quite heavily. Published in 1921.( Author's Preface and david wales)

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