Bab A SubDeb, Mary Roberts Rinehart
Bab A SubDeb, Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Bab: A Sub-Deb

Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart

Narrator: Angie Hickman

Unabridged: 11 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Published: 02/14/2023

Synopsis

Precocious seventeen-year-old Bab, with a sizeable sense of the romantic and an over-developed sense of the dramatic, shares how these traits get her into continuous scrapes via school themes, journals, and articles meant for publication.How can a made-up paramour appear at a ball? Will Bab find inspiration or romance from the neighboring vacation cottage? How can she save the career of her latest (and dearest) love? Managing an allowance is easy—isn’t buying a car to save on shoe repair fiscally responsible? Is the family’s butler a spy for Germany?Set against the backdrop of the first World War, these humorous tales highlight how little has changed in the past century with regard to a young girl’s finding her place in the world.Rerelease additions! Hear two additional stories from two of Rinehart’s other collections: Jane from Love Stories, and Affinities from Affinities and Other Stories. Both collections will be released in their entirety soon.

About Mary Roberts Rinehart

Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876–1958) was a novelist and playwright best known for her mystery stories, which combined humor with ingenuity. The success of her novels The Circular Staircase and The Man in Lower Ten established her reputation as an important American mystery writer. At one time she was the highest paid writer in America. In addition to mysteries, she wrote comic tales, plays, romances, and travel books, some of which reflected her experiences as a correspondent during World War I. One critic called her autobiography, My Story, her finest book.

About Angie Hickman

Angie Hickman has been in love with words for as long as she can remember. Angie received a BA in secondary English education from Indiana University while also pursuing theater, performing in shows from Shakespeare to Pinter. She expanded her passion for words through her work in libraries and bookstores, as a high school English teacher, and now, as an audiobook narrator. When she's not sitting in a tiny padded room and letting the voices in her head come out to play, Angie enjoys playing in the dirt growing veggies and getting lost in her fabric collection while sewing.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Quirkyreader

This story was one of Rinehart's earlier works. The main character Bab, tells of her adventures through her diary and "magazine articles". One thing to know about Bab is that she is a terrible speller and it shows in her writing. I enjoyed reading all of Bab's hi-jinks. But the end of the story got a......more

Goodreads review by Peggy

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and highly recommend it. The book is written in a series of themed papers or diary entries, written by Bab, a 17 year old during 1917. Bab is a spoiled, sheltered but neglected second daughter from a well off family. She is constantly writing about how she got into tro......more

Goodreads review by V.

It's awfully tempting to compare Mary Roberts Rinehart's hilarious Bab: A Sub-Deb with the Anita Loos novel that followed in its footsteps in 1926: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Diary of a Professional Lady. Both books feature wildly unreliable narrators whose spelling, to be generous, could make a......more

Goodreads review by Kelly

"Charming" isn't usually a descriptor that attracts me to a book, so it's a good thing I chose this for other reasons. My lost film research turned me onto a series of now-lost films from 1917 starring Marguerite Clarke and based on this novel. Bab is a clever teen—though not nearly as clever as she......more

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