On Punning
By Theodore Hook · Running time 00:37:06 · Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Audio streams directly from the Internet Archive. Recording by LibriVox volunteers (public domain). The text is in the public domain in the USA; please check the copyright laws of your country.
About this book
Theodore Edward Hook was an English man of letters and composer and briefly a civil servant in Mauritius. He is best known for his practical jokes, particularly the Berners Street hoax in 1810. The world's first postcard was received by Hook in 1840, which he probably posted to himself. Here he gives a humorous look at homophones - Summary by Wikipedia
Description from the LibriVox catalogue.
Chapters and downloads on LibriVox →
You might also like
- Ballad of John SilverJohn Masefield · 00:19:42
- Art and HeartElla Wheeler Wilcox · 1:10:42
- Barbara FrietchieJohn Greenleaf Whittier · 00:13:47
- Vagabond SongBliss Carman · 00:14:11
- Death Be Not ProudJohn Donne · 0:16:00
- Noiseless Patient SpiderWalt Whitman · 0:11:17
- I Do Not Love TheeCaroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton · 0:36:21
- IfRudyard Kipling · 0:38:16