A Pickle For the Knowing Ones by Timothy Dexter audiobook.

Genre: comedy

First published in the early 1800s by self-made Newburyport merchant Timothy Dexter, A Pickle For the Knowing Ones is part memoir, part provocation, and part prank on the polite reading public. Dexter, an untrained writer with boundless confidence, sets out to prove his brilliance to the neighbors, businessmen, and gentlemen who mocked him, while also offering sharp, scattershot opinions on politics, religion, trade, and everyday behavior in the young United States. The result is a wildly unconventional narrative voice: boastful, defensive, funny, and strangely insightful, leaping from personal triumphs and grudges to public events and moral advice with little warning. As Dexter battles for recognition, he turns the book itself into a contest between author and audience, daring readers to keep up with his logic, his insults, and his self-mythologizing. Beneath the bravado is a vivid portrait of early American ambition and insecurity, where social status can matter as much as money, and where a man determined to be heard will invent his own rules of print to do it.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:13:57) Chapter 01

(00:41:17) Chapter 02

(01:08:47) Chapter 03

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