Series ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
The Art of Money Getting
Phineas Taylor Barnum · 2022
🎙 Narrated by Multiple competing audio editions exist (public-domain text); narrators vary by publisher/platform, including Jeffrey Ito, Mike Vendetti (Spoken Realms), Jason McCoy (Quill Publishing), Gary Middleton (Anthony Pica Productions), Edith Harson (Musaicum Books), and a LibriVox volunteer recording — no single canonical narrator
68/100
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Barnum's little book of frugal, self-reliant money wisdom is short, quotable, and free thanks to public domain status, but it's thin gruel by modern standards and its advice is dated. Worth a skim more than a full listen, and heads up — since there's no single official audiobook, quality is a total roll of the dice depending on which edition you grab.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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🎙 Narration: unknown No single canonical edition — narrators range widely (Ito, Vendetti, McCoy, Middleton, Harson, LibriVox volunteers) and quality varies a lot by which one you pick.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety85
Substance / usefulness55
Craft & writing50
Originality60
Evidence & accuracy70
Hype vs delivers75
Age-fit85
Human-eye read60
Penny’s verdict68
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