Peeps at People - Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Wit…


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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)

Chapitres

Nansen 11:23 Lu par Tom Penn
Mr. Hall Caine 12:31 Lu par Taylor Davison
Emperor William 9:19 Lu par SK
Mr. Alfred Austin 10:47 Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Andrew Lang 13:51 Lu par Diana Schmidt
Zola 13:28 Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Sir Henry Irving 15:08 Lu par SK
Ian McLaren 12:11 Lu par Tom Penn
Rudyard Kipling 12:31 Lu par Jenni Clements
The De Reszkes 12:13 Lu par April Walters
Henryk Sienkiewicz 14:52 Lu par TriciaG
General Weyler 13:45 Lu par Jenni Clements