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    Tales of London Life
    Tales of London Life
    Tales of London Life
    Audiobook11 hours

    Tales of London Life

    Written by W. W. Jacobs and Stacey Aumonier

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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    About this audiobook

    An absorbing set of stories set in Victorian and Edwardian London.

    Old Fags by Stacy Aumonier
    The One Million Pound Bank Note by Mark Twain
    The Omnibus by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
    A Circular Tour by W. W. Jacobs
    The Hired Baby by Marie Corelli
    Juxtapositions by Stacy Aumonier
    Mixed Relations by W. W. Jacobs
    The Inconsiderate Waiter by J. M. Barrie
    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
    The Talking Horse by F. Anstey Guthrie
    London Street Marketsby Henry Mayhew
    The Changeling by W. W. Jacobs
    The Suicide Club by Robert Louis Stevenson
    Where was Wych Street? by Stacy Aumonier
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateDec 4, 2013
    ISBN9781467675871
    Tales of London Life
    Author

    W. W. Jacobs

    William Wymark Jacobs was an English author of short stories and novels. Quite popular in his lifetime primarily for his amusing maritime tales of life along the London docks (many of them humorous as well as sardonic in tone). Today he is best known for a few short works of horror fiction.

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