The Dinner Table Talk

About this film

LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Dinner Table Talk by Horatio Alger, Jr. and Thomas Chandler Haliburton. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 15, 2026. Horatio Alger Jr. was an American author who wrote young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to middle-class security and comfort through good works. Thomas Chandler Haliburton was a Nova Scotian politician, judge, and author who was the first international best-selling fiction author from what is now Canada. His fame came from his writings on history, politics, farm improvement, and from his The Clockmaker serial, that described the humorous adventures of Sam Slick. - Summary by Wikipedia For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit librivox.org . M4B Audiobook (5.5MB)

Directors & creators

Horatio Alger, Jr.; Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks; literature; poetry; philosophy; food; dyspepsia

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