The Genial Idiot: His Views and Reviews
By John Kendrick Bangs
Length3h 50m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "GOOD!" cried the Idiot, from behind the voluminous folds of the magazine section of his Sunday newspaper. "Here's a man after my own heart. Professor Duff, of Glasgow University, has come out with a public statement that the maxims and proverbs of our forefathers are largely hocus-pocus and buncombe. I've always maintained that myself from the moment I had my first copy-book lesson in which I had to scrawl the line, 'It's a long lane that has no turning,' twenty-four times. And then that other absurd statement, 'A stitch in the side is worth two in the hand'—or something[4] like it—I forget just how it goes—what Tommy-rot that is.""
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, Romance
Length3 hrs 50 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 9, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1I HE DISCUSSES MAXIMS AND PROVERBS
10X THE HOUSEMAID’S UNION
2II HE DISCUSSES THE IDEAL HUSBAND
11XI THE GENTLE ART OF BOOSTING
3III THE IDIOT’S VALENTINE
12XII HE MAKES A SUGGESTION TO THE POET
4IV HE DISCUSSES FINANCE
13XIII HE DISCUSSES THE MUSIC CURE
5V HE SUGGESTS A COMIC OPERA
14XIV HE DEFENDS CAMPAIGN METHODS
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6VI HE DISCUSSES FAME
15XV ON SHORT COURSES AT COLLEGE
7VII ON THE DECADENCE OF APRIL-FOOL’S-DAY
16XVI THE HORSE SHOW
8VIII SPRING AND ITS POETRY
17XVII SUGGESTION TO CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS
9IX ON FLAT-HUNTING
18XVIII FOR A HAPPY CHRISTMAS
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