Plum Pudding: Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned

by Christopher Morley

39 chapters6h 49mEnglish1921

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Chrisopher Morley was an American literary luminary whose prolific writings included novels, essays, poetry, plays and great journalistic output. This collection of essays is wide ranging in topics, many with his characteristic wit. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Chapters (39)

1The Perfect Reader

311

2The Autogenesis of a Poet

1305

3The Old Reliable

333

4In Memoriam, Francis Barton Gummere

791

5Adventures at Lunch Time

588

6Secret Transactions of the Three Hours for Lunch Club

654

7Initiation

480

8Creed of the Three Hours for Lunch Club

392

9A Preface to the Profession of Journalism

619

10Fulton Street, and Walt Whitman

666

11McSorley's

594

12A Portrait

445

13Going to Philadelphia

1431

14Our Tricolour Tie

1017

15The Club of Abandoned Husbands

511

16West Broadway

612

17The Rudeness of Poets

366

181100 Words

435

19Some Inns

804

20The Club in Hoboken

531

21The Club at Its Worst

363

22A Suburban Sentimentalist

569

23Gissing

453

24A Dialogue

374

25A Dialogue at the Gasthof zum Ochsene

466

26Mr. Conrad's New Preface

409

27The Little House

281

28Tadpoles

406

29Magic in Salamis

522

30Consider the Commuter

1423

31The Permanence of Poetry

319

32Books of the Sea

1058

33Fallacious Meditations on Criticism

1052

34Letting Out the Furnace

334

35By the Fireplace

386

36A City Note-Book

1946

37Thoughts in the Subway

485

38Dempsey vs. Carpentier

483

39A Letter to a Sea Captain

365

Plum Pudding: Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned

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