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    The Minstrel
    The Minstrel
    The Minstrel
    Audiobook14 minutes

    The Minstrel

    Written by Maurice Baring

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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    About this audiobook

    Maurice Baring (1874-1945) was an English short story writer, children's writer, travel writer and war correspondent during the First World War.

    The Minstrel is a classic fairy tale about a childless couple who are granted a wish by a fairy. They wish for a daughter. The fairy gives them a heart-shaped copper coin to hang over their hearth, telling them that they must never give it away, for if they do, they will be giving away their daughter. One day, years later, when the beautiful child is home alone, a minstrel comes by and sings a lovely, captivating song. The girl gives the minstrel the heart-shaped copper coin from above the hearth...and her fate is sealed....

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateJun 11, 2018
    ISBN9781987110227
    The Minstrel
    Author

    Maurice Baring

    Maurice Baring OBE (27 April 1874 – 14 December 1945) was an English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist, and also as a travel writer and war correspondent, with particular knowledge of Russia. During World War I, Baring served in the Intelligence Corps and Royal Air Force.

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