Ginx's Baby: His Birth and Other Misfortunes


Read by Lisa Reichert

(4.2 stars; 5 reviews)

In the second half of the 19th century, London was becoming a wealthy, industrialized city. It attracted many working class people from nearby towns and rural areas, all hoping to improve their lives and the futures of their family. But this growing population led to stiff competition for jobs, and the wealthy business owners didn't need to offer fair wages to get or keep workers, resulting in rampant poverty, overcrowding, and unsanitary slums. Many emigrated from Britian during this time, but for others things remained very desperate. This "light", satirical novel deals with what Ginx, one such poor man, did with the baby he could not afford to keep, and then what Charity and the Churches did with Ginx's Baby, what the Parish did with him, what the Clubs and Politicians did with him, and ultimately, what Ginx's Baby did with himself. - Summary by Lisa Reichert (3 hr 30 min)

Chapters

PREFACE & PART I. What Ginx Did With Him. Chapter 1: Ab Initio 4:46 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART I. Chapter 2: Home, Sweet Home! 6:45 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART I. Chapter 3: Work and Ideas 4:06 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART I. Chapter 4: Digressive, and May Be Skipped Without Mutilating the History 6:41 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART I. Chapter 5: Reasons and Resolves 3:30 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART I. Chapter 6: the Antagonism of Law and Necessity 6:23 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART I. Chapter 7: Malthus and Man 8:16 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART I. Chapter 8: The Baby's First Translation 2:06 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART II. What Charity and the Churches Did With Him. Chapter 1: The Milk of Hum… 10:52 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART II. Chapter 2: The Protestant Detectoral Association 4:03 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART II. Chapter 3: The Sacrament of Baptism 2:33 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART II. Chapter 4: Law On Behalf of Gospel 9:16 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART II. Chapter 5: Magistrate's Law 3:59 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART II. Chapter 6: Popery and Protestantism in the Queen's Bench 5:59 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART II. Chapter 7: A Protestor, But Not a Protestant 2:56 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART II. Chapter 8: "See How These Christians Love One Another" 12:02 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART II. Chapter 9: Good Samaritans, and Good-Samaritan Twopences 3:46 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART II. Chapter 10: The Force--and a Specimen of Its Weakness 3:56 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART II. Chapter 11: The Unity of the Spirit and the Bond of Peace 18:54 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART II. Chapter 12: No Funds--No Faith, No Works 2:36 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART II. Chapter 13: In Transitu 1:00 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART III. What the Parish Did With Him. Chapter 1: Parochial Knots--To Be Untie… 2:04 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART III. Chapter 2: A Board of Guardians 6:15 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART III. Chapter 3: "The World Is My Parish" 1:56 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART III. Chapter 4: Without Prejudice to Any One But the Guardians 6:29 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART III. Chapter 5: An Ungodly Jungle 7:32 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART III. Chapter 6: Parochial Benevolence--and Another Translation 5:21 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART IV. What the Clubs and Politicians Did With Him. Chapter 1: Moved On 2:42 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART IV. Chapter 2: Club Ideas 8:08 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART IV. Chapter 3: A Thorough-Paced Reformer--If Not a Revolutionary 11:12 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART IV. Chapter 4: Very Broad Views 12:57 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART IV. Chapter 5: Party Tactics--And Political Obstructions to Social Reform 11:11 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART IV. Chapter 6: Amateur Debating In a High Legislative Body 6:08 Read by Lisa Reichert
PART V. What Ginx's Baby Did With Himself. The Last Chapter. 4:13 Read by Lisa Reichert

Reviews

What a lovely surprise!!!


(5 stars)

I really liked this book! What a feisty surprise it kept becoming, as “Here”, I would realize that it was Queen Victoria being spoken of obliquely, and “There”, I recognized I was hearing about the Great Irish Potato Famine and the resulting waves of emigrants fleeing as the consequences of bad governing accumulated. (the “Yam” crop was devastated… !Again, what a lovely surprise! ) About the Narrator: delivered the text with skill. Was effective in the way one can only be when working to be as invisible as water, thereby allowing the fullest measure of one’s attention to be available.