What do you think?
Rate this book
Plum Pudding: Of Divers Ingredients Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
Illustrated by Walter Jack Duncan
192 pages, Paperback
First published May 4, 1910
4 people are currently reading
19 people want to read
About the author
Christopher Morley
372 books194 followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
American writer Christopher Darlington Morley founded the Saturday Review, from 1924 to 1940 edited it, and prolifically, most notably authored popular novels.
Christopher Morley, a journalist, essayist, and poet, also produced on stage for a few years and gave college lectures.
American writer Christopher Darlington Morley founded the Saturday Review, from 1924 to 1940 edited it, and prolifically, most notably authored popular novels.
Christopher Morley, a journalist, essayist, and poet, also produced on stage for a few years and gave college lectures.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 of 1 review
January 20, 2018
A deeply old-fashioned, charming collection of essays.
Morley offers me a particularly interesting combination of subjects, because he’s often writing about places I know and love, such as New York and Philadelphia, but at a time that’s now so long ago that many of the portraits are shockingly strange and unfamiliar.
It’s amazing to read rhapsodies about uncrowded trains and crystal-blue harbors, and even more amazing to read odes to the pastoral, bucolic pleasures of Long Island (!). I’ve gotten used to sighing as I read about hilariously cheap restaurant meals in old books, but his descriptions of commuters to the old Penn Station as being among the elite of such travelers stopped me cold.
I think I liked the pieces about his Three Hours for Lunch Club best (because they sounded like such fun), but I also particularly liked his “Consider the Commuter” essay. Having grown up as a kid in the NY suburbs (though on the Hudson/Harlem Lines, not the LIRR), with a mom who took the train into the city every day, it rang many bells.
NB: I took longer to read this book than usual because I foolishly left it in a shop, and they had to send it back to me! Thanks, Ruby at Rigby & Peller.
Morley offers me a particularly interesting combination of subjects, because he’s often writing about places I know and love, such as New York and Philadelphia, but at a time that’s now so long ago that many of the portraits are shockingly strange and unfamiliar.
It’s amazing to read rhapsodies about uncrowded trains and crystal-blue harbors, and even more amazing to read odes to the pastoral, bucolic pleasures of Long Island (!). I’ve gotten used to sighing as I read about hilariously cheap restaurant meals in old books, but his descriptions of commuters to the old Penn Station as being among the elite of such travelers stopped me cold.
I think I liked the pieces about his Three Hours for Lunch Club best (because they sounded like such fun), but I also particularly liked his “Consider the Commuter” essay. Having grown up as a kid in the NY suburbs (though on the Hudson/Harlem Lines, not the LIRR), with a mom who took the train into the city every day, it rang many bells.
NB: I took longer to read this book than usual because I foolishly left it in a shop, and they had to send it back to me! Thanks, Ruby at Rigby & Peller.
Displaying 1 of 1 review