Adam & Eve & Pinch Me

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Adam & Eve & Pinch Me

by A. E. (Alfred Edgar) Coppard

EN·~6 hours·23 chapters

Chapters

23 total
1

ADAM & EVE & PINCH ME

0:58
2

MARCHING TO ZION

23:35
3

DUSKY RUTH

18:18
4

WEEP NOT MY WANTON

6:01
5

PIFFINGCAP

22:25
6

THE KING OF THE WORLD

14:13
7

ADAM AND EVE AND PINCH ME

25:30
8

THE PRINCESS OF KINGDOM GONE

11:27
9

COMMUNION

8:28
10

THE QUIET WOMAN

29:53

Description

A wandering narrator sets out on a rambling pilgrimage through a strange, sun‑lit wood, where the ordinary collides with the absurd. He encounters a rotund woman who hurls bread back at him, a lean stranger with a chin furuncle, and a procession of odd travelers—an old man pushing an ass, a one‑legged widow, a philosopher with a split mind. Their bizarre exchanges and vivid descriptions turn a simple stroll into a parade of comic caricatures and philosophical musings.

The voice is playful yet reflective, weaving humor with a lingering sense of aimlessness. As the journey stretches into the heat of summer, the narrator meets Monk, a massive, oddly graceful figure whose larger‑than‑life presence hints at deeper, unseen forces pulling the traveler forward. Listeners are invited into this early‑twentieth‑century tapestry of quirky encounters, where every encounter feels both a joke and a quiet meditation on the road ahead.

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Language

en

Duration

~6 hours (386K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by ellinora, Craig Kirkwood, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2019-11-26

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

A. E. (Alfred Edgar) Coppard

A. E. (Alfred Edgar) Coppard

1878–1957

Raised in poverty and largely self-taught, this English writer became one of the best-known short story voices of the early 20th century. His fiction is especially remembered for its vivid rural settings, ordinary people, and quietly magical turns of feeling.

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