Plum Pudding (version 2)

by Christopher Morley

40 chapters6h 56mEnglish1921

About this book

Christopher Morley: A modern humorist with the tang of an Elizabethan. Plum Pudding: Thus Mr. Morley entitles his new volume, in which he has occupied himself with books in particular, but also with divers other ingredients such as city and suburban incidents, women, dogs, children, tadpoles, and so on.

Chapters (39)

1The Perfect Reader

331

2The Autogenesis of a Poet

1262

3The Old Reliable

362

4In Memoriam Francis Barton Gummere

573

5Adventures at Lunch Time

643

6Secret Transactions of the Three Hours for Lunch Club

612

7Initiation

512

8Creed of the Three Hours for Lunch Club

423

9A Preface to the Profession of Journalism

547

10Fulton Street, and Walt Whitman

716

11McSorley's

667

12A Portrait

449

13Going to Philadelphia

1507

14Our Tricolour Tie

1052

15The Club of Abandoned Husbands

504

16West Broadway

619

17The Rudeness of Poets

421

181100 Words

438

19Some Inns

981

20The Club in Hoboken

532

21The Club at its Worst

323

22A Suburban Sentimentalist

559

23Gissing

497

24A Dialogue

384

25At the Gasthof Zum Ochsen

334

26Mr Conrad's New Preface

403

27The Little House

354

28Tadpoles

382

29Magic in Salamis

573

30Consider the Commuter

1177

31The Permanence of Poetry

344

32Books of the Sea

1241

33Fallacious Meditations on Criticism

938

34Letting out the Furnace

356

35By the Fireplace

397

36A City Note-Book

2105

37Thoughts in the Subway

513

38Dempsey vs. Carpentier

546

39A Letter To A Sea Captain (To D.W.B.)

350

Plum Pudding (version 2)

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Chapters (39)

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