The Circus


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LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Circus by Edwin C Ranck.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 14, 2020.
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This little volume was written for no reason on earth and with no earthly reason. It just simply happened, on the principle, I suppose that "murder will out." Murder is a bad thing and so are nonsense rhymes. There is often a valid excuse for murder; there is none for nonsense rhymes. They seem to be a necessary evil to be classed with smallpox, chicken-pox, yellow fever and other irruptive diseases. They are also on the order of the boomerang and eventually rebound and inflict much suffering on the unlucky verse-slinger. So you see nonsense, like a little learning is a dangerous thing and should be handled with as much care as the shotgun which is never known to be loaded. From the Preface to Poems for Pale People, A Volume of Verse By Edwin C. Ranck. (0 hr 25 min)

Chapters

The Circus - Read by AMB 1:18 Read by ambsweet13
The Circus - Read by AWB 1:30 Read by andybeddy
The Circus - Read by BK 1:34 Read by Bruce Kachuk
The Circus - Read by BR 1:33 Read by Batty Royale
The Circus - Read by CF 1:26 Read by Craig Franklin
The Circus - Read by CJPH 1:15 Read by ChadH94
The Circus - Read by CLP 1:08 Read by Chris Pyle
The Circus - Read by DL 1:18 Read by David Lawrence
The Circus - Read by EA 1:13 Read by Edmond Aggabao
The Circus - Read by ED 1:08 Read by EliseDee
The Circus - Read by FH 1:12 Read by mammutty
The Circus - Read by GB 1:27 Read by Garth Burton
The Circus - Read by GD 1:21 Read by Garfield Dsouza
The Circus - Read by GRS 1:29 Read by Graham Scott
The Circus - Read by LAH 1:18 Read by Lee Ann Howlett
The Circus - Read by PN 1:11 Read by Princess Nwafor
The Circus - Read by PS 1:19 Read by Phil Schempf
The Circus - Read by LCW 1:18 Read by Larry Wilson
The Circus - Read by RF 1:29 Read by Ryan Fink