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Title: Eliza

Author: Barry Pain

Narrator: Roy Macready

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-17

Publisher: Spiders' House Audio

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Eliza was the first volume of the Eliza Stories by Barry Pain (1864-1928). It was published in 1900 and was the first of these stories that appeared in cheap editions and were sold on railway bookstalls. The stories were hugely popular and made Pain's name. Although the book is titled Eliza, it is her husband who is its comic hero.

The husband, whose name we never learn, is an overbearing, pretentious prig who believes he is right about everything but is constantly undermined and proved wrong by his long-suffering wife. He is without doubt one of the great comic creations in the tradition of Mr Pooter in The Diary of a Nobody.

Members Reviews:

Amazon's Book Cover is misleading

The nude woman bookcover on Amazon's page seems to imply this is perhaps a racy type book which couldn't be further from the truth.

It is a series of anecdotes about a @1900 English fictional couple in their 40s I'd guess who are childless.

Very tame short humorous stories told by the husband about his life with his wife, Eliza. The couple are like an English version of George Burns and Gracie Allen.

A gentle chuckle of a book. Get it free from MobileRead.