George Meredith

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This edition of Meredith's satirical novel of manners reprints the text of 1897, which incorporated Meredith's revisions to the first edition of 1879. The editor has corrected some errors which escaped...

George Meredith, OM, was born in Portsmouth, England on February 12th, 1828. His mother died when he was five. As a fourteen year old teenager he was sent to a Moravian School in Neuwied, Germany, staying there for two years. After reading law he was...

Today perhaps we all agree that youth is spoilt, ill-disciplined and in search of constant, and instant, gratification. No matter how much we love them, our children, as they mature from child to youth, are pampered.A century ago, and even further...

The novel is a humorous oriental romance and allegory written in the style of the Arabian Nights. Like its model, it includes a number of stories within the story, along with poetic asides. (Summary by Wikipedia.)“The variety of scenes and images, the...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In "The Shaving of Shagpat," Shibli Bagarag, a humble barber, finds himself on an extraordinary quest. Enchantress Noorna tasks him with shaving the tyrannical Shagpat, whose power rests in his magical...