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Princess Mary's Gift Book

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Narrator LibriVox Community

Publisher: LibriVox

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Summary

In 1917, Princess Mary, then 17 years of age, gave her name to this collection of short stories and essays from the most prominent authors of the time for the purpose of raising funds for the "Work For Women Fund".   A few of the outstanding authors represented in this sparkling collection are J.M. Barrie with is essay on A Holiday in Bed; A. Conan Doyle; J.H. Fabre the naturalist with his well know description of The Ant-Lion; H. Ryder Haggard; Rudyard Kipling; Alfred Noyes ("A Spell for a Fairy"); Baroness Orczy (yes, that one); and Kate Douglas Wiggin    .   - Summary by Phil Chenevert
Duration: about 5 hours (05:21:54)
Publishing date: 2014-08-25; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —