Peeps at People - Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Wit…
John Kendrick Bangs
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Written by a fictitious first-person narrator, this book puts a humorous spin on encounters with several famous people of the time. "I set forth from my office in London upon my pilgrimage to the shrines of the world's illustrious. Readers everywhere are interested in the home life of men who have made themselves factors in art, science, letters, and history, and to these people I was commissioned to go." -- Summary by TriciaG and from the book. (2 hr 31 min)
Chapters
Nansen | 11:23 | Read by Tom Penn |
Mr. Hall Caine | 12:31 | Read by Taylor Davison |
Emperor William | 9:19 | Read by SK |
Mr. Alfred Austin | 10:47 | Read by Eva Davis |
Andrew Lang | 13:51 | Read by Diana Schmidt |
Zola | 13:28 | Read by Eva Davis |
Sir Henry Irving | 15:08 | Read by SK |
Ian McLaren | 12:11 | Read by Tom Penn |
Rudyard Kipling | 12:31 | Read by Jenni Clements |
The De Reszkes | 12:13 | Read by April Walters |
Henryk Sienkiewicz | 14:52 | Read by TriciaG |
General Weyler | 13:45 | Read by Jenni Clements |