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    Motoring Tales: Six Stories Inspired by the Early Automobile
    Motoring Tales: Six Stories Inspired by the Early Automobile
    Motoring Tales: Six Stories Inspired by the Early Automobile
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    Motoring Tales: Six Stories Inspired by the Early Automobile

    Written by E.F. Benson, Rudyard Kipling and A. J. Alan

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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    About this audiobook

    As the invention of the automobile enabled quicker travel and enhanced the lives of the early motorists, it also gave new impetus to a generation of story writers.

    Automobiles were unusual, unfamiliar beasts. They combined speed and danger with an uncanny ability to break down at unexpected moments, catapulting the unhappy traveller into new adventures, or thusting mystery strangers onto the inhabitants of remote houses.

    Early motor cars were sometimes awarded the same personal qualities which had previously been attributed to horses...and crashed cars might come back as ghosts to haunt the road where they "died".

    Red Door Audiobooks presents six short classic stories in which the automobile takes centre stage.

    1. "The Dust Cloud", by E. F. Benson
    2. "A Joy Ride", by A. J. Alan
    3. "They", by Rudyard Kipling
    4. "My Adventure in Norfolk", by A. J. Alan
    5. "The Bus Conductor", by E. F. Benson
    6. "A Coincidence", by A. J. Alan
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateOct 15, 2014
    ISBN9781467697729
    Motoring Tales: Six Stories Inspired by the Early Automobile
    Author

    E.F. Benson

    Edward Frederic Benson (1867–1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer. Benson was the son of the Archbishop of Canterbury and member of a distinguished and eccentric family. After attending Marlborough and King’s College, Cambridge, where he studied classics and archaeology, he worked at the British School of Archaeology in Athens. A great humorist, he achieved success at an early age with his first novel, Dodo(1893). Benson was a prolific author, writing over one hundred books including serious novels, ghost stories, plays, and biographies. But he is best remembered for his Lucia and Mapp comedies written between 1920 and 1939 and other comic novels such as Paying Guests and Mrs Ames. Benson served as mayor of Rye, the Sussex town that provided the model for his fictional Tilling, from 1934 to 1937.  

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