The Re-echo Club

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The Re-echo Club

by Carolyn Wells

EN·~50 minutes·1 chapter

Chapters

1 total

50:35

Description

Listeners are invited into a forgotten salon of word‑play, where a handful of curious writers once gathered to out‑wit each other in verse. The recovered papers of the Re‑Echo Club surface as a delightful patchwork of parodies, mock‑epics, and lyrical musings—all orbiting the whimsical legend of the ever‑elusive Purple Cow. Familiar references to classic poets intermingle with exuberant nonsense, giving the feeling of a private joke shared across generations.

Each reading unfolds like a friendly contest, with contributors stretching a simple quatrain into elaborate celebrations of absurdity and imagination. The verses swing from gentle, lyrical reverie to boisterous, tongue‑in‑cheek extravagance, all while preserving the earnest delight of a secret literary fellowship. As the collection rolls on, listeners will taste the thrill of discovering a hidden tradition that revels in cleverness, color, and the simple joy of imagining a cow that could never quite be seen.

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Language

en

Duration

~50 minutes (48K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Bryan Ness, Greg Bergquist 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

2008-03-15

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Carolyn Wells

Carolyn Wells

1862–1942

A wildly prolific American writer, she moved easily from mysteries and children’s books to light verse and literary humor. Her work was hugely popular in the early 20th century, and she was also known as a serious collector of Walt Whitman materials.

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