Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy by Stephen Leacock audiobook.

Genre: comedy

Stephen Leacock's Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy is a sparkling collection of comic sketches, mock essays, and playful stories that turns everyday modern life into a field of absurd adventure. With a straight face and a perfectly timed sense of exaggeration, Leacock pokes fun at businessmen, social climbers, amateur intellectuals, romantic dreamers, and anyone who takes fashionable ideas too seriously. The book moves through a series of memorable situations rather than a single continuous plot, introducing a lively cast of professors, lovers, schemers, hosts, guests, and eccentrics who all become trapped in their own vanity, confusion, or misplaced confidence. Whether he is parodying high society, popular fiction, education, travel, or the language of self-importance, Leacock keeps the humor light on its feet while quietly exposing the gap between how people wish to appear and how foolish they often are. Beneath the wit is a sharp but cheerful view of human nature, full of affection for weakness even as it laughs at it. Rich in irony, wordplay, and social satire, this is a classic showcase of Leacock's ability to make lunacy sound perfectly reasonable.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:01:25) Chapter 01

(00:27:14) Chapter 02

(00:43:23) Chapter 03

(01:10:24) Chapter 04

(01:41:32) Chapter 05

(02:02:53) Chapter 06

(02:12:30) Chapter 07

(02:19:30) Chapter 08

(02:30:37) Chapter 09

(02:33:10) Chapter 10

(02:39:56) Chapter 11

(02:51:44) Chapter 12

(03:04:52) Chapter 13

(03:11:28) Chapter 14

(03:13:35) Chapter 15

(03:19:23) Chapter 16

(03:32:41) Chapter 17

(03:40:31) Chapter 18

(04:02:10) Chapter 19

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