A Book Without a Title

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A Book Without a Title

by George Jean Nathan

EN·~31 minutes·76 chapters

Chapters

76 total

Transcriber's note

0:30

A BOOK WITHOUT A TITLE

0:14

I. THE ATHEIST

0:16

II. ALLIES

0:18

III. VIEWPOINT

0:10

IV. THE MISTAKE

0:22

V. TEMPORA MUTANTUR

0:39

VI. LOVE

0:31

VII. FLIPPANCY

0:18

VIII. THE GIFT

0:11
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Description

A kaleidoscopic collection of brief, sharply imagined scenes invites listeners into a world where philosophy, satire, and the absurd collide. Each vignette feels like a whispered conversation with unseen forces—atheists denouncing gods, devils offering riddles, scholars speaking in riddles that only crowds pretend to hear. The prose darts from lofty balloons drifting toward the stars to intimate moments of love and loss, all rendered in a playful, almost theatrical voice that constantly bends language and expectation.

The pieces probe timeless concerns—faith, ambition, fame, memory—through witty paradoxes and vivid allegories, leaving the audience to wonder what lies beneath the humor. As the narrator flits from one eccentric character to the next, the listener is drawn into a mosaic of ideas that feels both familiar and delightfully strange, promising an experience that is as thought‑provoking as it is entertaining.

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Language

en

Duration

~31 minutes (30K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by David Edwards, Carla Foust and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net

Release date

Dec 30, 2008

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

George Jean Nathan

George Jean Nathan

1882–1958

A sharp-tongued drama critic and magazine editor, he helped shape American theater talk in the first half of the 20th century. His reviews were witty, demanding, and famously hard to ignore.

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