Length4h 52m
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Excerpt: "These five plays were written, in the order in which they appear now, during the years 1916 and 1917. They would hardly have been written had it not been for the war, although only one of them is concerned with that subject. To his other responsibilities the Kaiser now adds this volume. For these plays were not the work of a professional writer, but the recreation of a (temporary) professional soldier. Play-writing is a luxury to a journalist, as insidious as golf and much more expensive in time and money. When an article is written, the financial reward (and we may as well live as not) is a matter of certainty. A novelist, too, even if he is not in "the front rank"—but I never heard of one who wasn't—can at least be sure of publication. But when a play is written, there is no certainty of anything save disillusionment."
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GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length4 hrs 52 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 24, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Pleasure of Writing
23A Day at Lord's
2Acacia Road
24By the Sea
3My Library
25Golden Fruit
4The Chase
26Signs of Character
5Superstition
27Intellectual Snobbery
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6The Charm of Golf
28A Question of Form
7Goldfish
29A Slice of Fiction
8Saturday to Monday
30The Label
9The Pond
31The Profession
10A Seventeenth-Century Story
32Smoking as a Fine Art
11Our Learned Friends
33The Path to Glory
12A Word for Autumn
34A Problem in Ethics
13No Flowers by Request
35The Happiest Half-Hours of Life
14The Unfairness of Things
36Natural Science
15Daffodils
37On Going Dry
16A Household Book
38A Misjudged Game
17Lunch
39Thoughts on Thermometers
18The Friend of Man
40For a Wet Afternoon
19The Diary Habit
41Declined with Thanks
20Midsummer Day
42On Going into a House
21At the Bookstall
43The Ideal Author
22"Who's Who"
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