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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