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    Man-Size in Marble
    Man-Size in Marble
    Man-Size in Marble
    Audiobook32 minutes

    Man-Size in Marble

    Written by E. Nesbit

    Narrated by Roy Macready

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    E. Nesbit is best known for her children's books such as The Railway Children, the “Psammead” series. and the stories of the “Bastable” family.

    She was also a poet and wrote many works for adults including short stories in the genre of the supernatural and the macabre. Man-Size in Marble is one of her strangest and most unsettling.

    Public Domain (P)2016 Spiders' House Audio/Roy Macready

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBig Happy Family
    Release dateSep 8, 2016
    ISBN9781509461226
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    E. Nesbit

    E. Nesbit (1858–1924) began writing for young adults after a successful career in magazines. Using her own unconventional childhood as a jumping-off point, she published novels that combined reality, fantasy, and humor. Expanded from a series of articles in the Strand Magazine, Five Children and It was published as a novel in 1902 and is the first in a trilogy that includes The Phoenix and the Carpet and The Story of the Amulet. Together with her husband, Nesbit was a founding member of the socialist Fabian Society, and her home became a hub for some of the greatest authors and thinkers of the time, including George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells.

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