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    Balloons
    Balloons
    Balloons
    Audiobook3 hours

    Balloons

    Written by Elizabeth Bibesco

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    Elizabeth, Princess Bibesco, was an English writer and socialite. The daughter of a British Prime Minister and the wife of a Romanian aristocrat, she drew on her experience in British high society in her work. Her talent is the compression into a few phrases of all the details of a situation, into a few pages the hopes and failures of a lifetime. These (very) short stories explore in a few precise phrases the hopes of newlyweds, the emotions of a widow, and all aspects of life between! (Summary by Wikipedia and Beth Thomas)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014

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