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Immerse yourself in a world where the wonderful Stephen Fry reads some of the more memorable children's short stories written by one of the most successful playwrights of all time. A brilliant combination of reader and writer come together in these six short stories. Stephen's voice takes you into a different kind of listening experience, enabling you to imagine settings, animals, and people with vivid color and meaning.
- GenresAudiobookShort Stories
1 pages, Audio CD
Published March 1, 2021
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About the author
Victoria Hamilton
45 books1,041 followersVictoria Hamilton is the bestselling author of several mystery series including the national bestselling Vintage Kitchen Mysteries and Merry Muffin Mysteries. She does, indeed, collect vintage kitchenware and bake muffins. She drinks tea and coffee on writing days, and wine other times. It doesn’t do to confuse days. A solitary being, she can be coaxed out of her writing cave for brownies and cat videos.
She started her writing life as Donna Lea Simpson, bestselling author of Regency Romances, paranormal historicals and historical mysteries, and still has a soft spot for the Regency period.
In fact her latest writing adventure is the new Regency-set historical mystery series - to be published by Midnight Ink - beginning in February 2019 with A Gentlewoman's Guide to Murder, featuring Miss Emmeline St. Germaine, a young lady who dares to defy society. She will fight for her right to live her own life, despite the dangers that presents. She has a dagger, and she's not afraid to use it.
If you Google ‘Victoria Hamilton’, you will find listed first a famous actress who starred as the Queen Mother in the Crown and as Charlotte Brontë in ‘In Search of the Brontës’. That’s not the Victoria who writes mysteries.
No, really, it’s not!
You can find her buried in a good book, (entombed in a good tome?) or online at:
Website: http://www.VictoriaHamiltonMysteries.com (Sign up for her annoyingly infrequent newsletter for all the latest!)
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorVictor...
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/MysteryVictoria
She started her writing life as Donna Lea Simpson, bestselling author of Regency Romances, paranormal historicals and historical mysteries, and still has a soft spot for the Regency period.
In fact her latest writing adventure is the new Regency-set historical mystery series - to be published by Midnight Ink - beginning in February 2019 with A Gentlewoman's Guide to Murder, featuring Miss Emmeline St. Germaine, a young lady who dares to defy society. She will fight for her right to live her own life, despite the dangers that presents. She has a dagger, and she's not afraid to use it.
If you Google ‘Victoria Hamilton’, you will find listed first a famous actress who starred as the Queen Mother in the Crown and as Charlotte Brontë in ‘In Search of the Brontës’. That’s not the Victoria who writes mysteries.
No, really, it’s not!
You can find her buried in a good book, (entombed in a good tome?) or online at:
Website: http://www.VictoriaHamiltonMysteries.com (Sign up for her annoyingly infrequent newsletter for all the latest!)
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorVictor...
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/MysteryVictoria
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April 6, 2021
Came across this available in my library and it was so lovely to be able to spend a day listening to! The stories are beautiful (my favourites were the Happy Prince and the Selfish Giant) and Fry’s storytelling is also wonderful.
I came at this as someone who loves Wilde’s other works (rather than as someone who reads a lot of children’s stories) and you can see so much of himself in these. As simple as they may be, they are extremely meaningful and comparing the themes in these stories to the themes in Dorian Gray or De Profundis is not at all necessary but does provide so much depth.
I came at this as someone who loves Wilde’s other works (rather than as someone who reads a lot of children’s stories) and you can see so much of himself in these. As simple as they may be, they are extremely meaningful and comparing the themes in these stories to the themes in Dorian Gray or De Profundis is not at all necessary but does provide so much depth.
March 31, 2025
4,5 stars rounded up to 5 stars.
The Devoted Friend- 9/10
The Nightingale and the Rose- 9/10
The Happy Prince- 10/10
The Remarkable Rocket- 10/10
The Selfish Giant- 8/10
The Young King- 7/10
The Devoted Friend- 9/10
The Nightingale and the Rose- 9/10
The Happy Prince- 10/10
The Remarkable Rocket- 10/10
The Selfish Giant- 8/10
The Young King- 7/10
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