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Fables for the Frivolous by Guy Wetmore Carryl ~ Full Audiobook [poetry]
Fables for the Frivolous by Guy Wetmore Carryl audiobook. One of the earliest works by the American parodist, Guy Wetmore Carryl, these fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine’s original writings. The fables are written in verse, and are light-he...
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Show Notes
Fables for the Frivolous by Guy Wetmore Carryl audiobook.
Genre: poetry
In Fables for the Frivolous, Guy Wetmore Carryl turns the familiar shape of the classic fable inside out, delivering a brisk collection of witty verse tales that end not with solemn instruction, but with sly punchlines and upside-down morals. Each short poem introduces a small cast of recognizable characters - vain social climbers, stubborn fools, self-satisfied experts, and a menagerie of animals who behave with all the charming pettiness of polite society. With a narrator who is equal parts storyteller and conspirator, Carryl sketches quick scenes of temptation, pride, miscommunication, and misplaced certainty, then snaps them shut with a concluding couplet that skewers the lesson you thought you were about to learn. The central conflict in these miniatures is almost always the same: a character's tidy worldview colliding with reality, and losing. Written with nimble rhyme and a satirist's eye for human habits, the book invites listeners to laugh at pretension, question easy wisdom, and enjoy language that lands like a well-timed wink. Light, sharp, and endlessly quotable, these fables are built for replay.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 1
(00:02:57) Chapter 2
(00:05:38) Chapter 3
(00:08:20) Chapter 4
(00:10:23) Chapter 5
(00:12:45) Chapter 6
(00:15:05) Chapter 7
(00:17:03) Chapter 8
(00:19:12) Chapter 9
(00:21:58) Chapter 10
(00:23:51) Chapter 11
(00:26:04) Chapter 12
(00:28:30) Chapter 13
(00:30:35) Chapter 14
(00:33:06) Chapter 15
(00:35:38) Chapter 16
(00:37:57) Chapter 17
(00:40:16) Chapter 18
(00:42:31) Chapter 19
(00:44:29) Chapter 20
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