Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor

About this film

LibriVox recording of Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor by James Whitcomb Riley; Bill Nye. Read in English by DrPGould; Stu Hollowell; RecordingPerson; Tom Penn; Cyndy; Sean McElrath; Michael Fassio; Stacy Simon; Kate Follis; Annyiee Hill; Jason in Panama; April6090; tovarisch; brianna; cathicol "What this country needs, aside from a new Indian policy and a style of poison for children which will be liable to kill rats if they eat it by accident, is a Railway Guide which will be just as good two years ago as it was next spring—a Railway Guide, if you please, which shall not be cursed by a plethora of facts, or poisoned with information—a Railway Guide that shall be rich with doubts and lighted up with miserable apprehensions. In other Railway Guides, pleasing fancy, poesy and literary beauty, have been throttled at the very threshold of success, by a wild incontinence of facts, figures, asterisks and references to meal stations. For this reason a guide has been built at our own shops and on a new plan. It is the literary piece de resistance of the age in which we live. It will not permit information to creep in and mar the reader's enjoyment of the scenery. It contains no railroad map…

Directors & creators

James Whitcomb Riley; Bill Nye

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;poetry; poem; humour; USA; stories; wit; prose; fun; 1900; 2017

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