Eliza

Name: Eliza
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Barry Pain
ISBN: 9798212564045

Author: Barry Pain

Narrator: Graham Scott

Unabridged: 2 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Voices of Today

Published: 03/28/2023

Categories: Fiction, Humorous, Classic

Synopsis

A pompous and pooterish city clerk with social pretensions relates anecdotes of suburban life in Edwardian England, as he and his patient and long-suffering wife, Eliza, deal with various crises and contretemps—including the vexed question of visiting cards; a malfunctioning music player; the mistreatment of the narrator’s hat; a mushroom (or toadstool) in the front garden; and the ongoing struggle to balance the household accounts …

About Barry Pain

Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864–1928) was an English journalist, poet, humorist, and writer. Born in Cambridge, he was educated at Sedbergh School, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was a prominent contributor to The Granta magazine and is chiefly known as a writer of parody and lightly humorous stories.

About Graham Scott

Graham Scott is a narrator and voice actor based in the UK. As well as solo performances of works by authors including PG Wodehouse, Charles Dickens, R Austin Freeman, Dorothy L. Sayers, Jules Verne, Anna Katherine Green, Joseph Conrad, GK Chesterton, and John Buchan, Graham is also a regular performer in group productions with both Voices of Today and The Online Stage. Website: www.GrahamScottAudio.com

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lakshmi on January 01, 2017

Awesome ! I didn't think there was anyone who could match P.G Wodehouse's humor. Thankfully i am wrong. Mr.Barry Pain's reading is a joy to read. I regret having discovered this author so late !......more

Goodreads review by Gregory on August 12, 2024

Barry Pain is best known today for his horror fiction, but was famous in his day primarily as a humorist. He wrote five extremely slim volumes featuring Eliza and her husband (the narrator, who I want to say is not named?). Those have been collected under the uninspired name of "The Eliza Stories,"......more