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

John Kendrick Bangs (1862 - 1922)

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.

Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Nansen Tom Penn
00:11:23
Play 02 Mr. Hall Caine Taylor Davison
00:12:31
Play 03 Emperor William SK
00:09:19
Play 04 Mr. Alfred Austin Eva Davis
00:10:47
Play 05 Andrew Lang Diana Schmidt
00:13:51
Play 06 Zola Eva Davis
00:13:28
Play 07 Sir Henry Irving SK
00:15:08
Play 08 Ian McLaren Tom Penn
00:12:11
Play 09 Rudyard Kipling Jenni Clements
00:12:31
Play 10 The De Reszkes April Walters
00:12:13
Play 11 Henryk Sienkiewicz TriciaG
00:14:52
Play 12 General Weyler Jenni Clements
00:13:45