Elsie in New York and The Purple Dress
Author : O. Henry
Performed By : Susan McCarthy, David Thorn, and Bobbie Frohman
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Runtime : 30 minutes
Categories : Classic Literature
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"In O. Henry's world, establishment figures become boobs and rich men become dunces,
while rogues become heroes and down-and-outers become gentlemen."Coconut Telegraph
In "Elsie in New York," Elsie is an innocent young woman who, upon the death of her father, must look
for work to make a living. Her father expected her to trust to the goodheartedness of his previous employer,
but Elsie prefers to make her own way in life. Although she visits an employment agency and applies for
several positions, do-gooders interfere. Thinking they are saving her soul, in actuality they point her to her
destruction.
In "The Purple Dress," two young women clerks have been saving money all year to buy new dresses for
the one gala of their year, the annual Thanksgiving dinner given by their employer. Both are hoping to catch
the eye of one attractive gentleman bachelor at the party. But interactions with a landlady and a dressmaker
intervene, and things turn out much differently than either girl could have imagined.
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Alan Bennett - Untold Stories Part 4: A Common Assault
Author : Alan Bennett
Performed By : Alan Bennett
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 2 hours
Categories : Biographical
Biographical
Modern Classics
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Untold Stories , Alan Bennett's first major collection of prose since his bestselling Writing Home , brings together the finest and funniest of his writing over the last ten years.
After Untold Stories: Part 1: Stories, Part 2: The Diaries and Part 3: Written on the Body, Part 4: A Common Assault contains two more reminiscences from Bennett's life and an essay on the class system.
A Common Assault describes an incident in Italy when he was mugged, and found himself trying to give a statement to the police in bad Italian. The History Boys harks back once more to Bennett's time at school, and shows how the raw material of experience was eventually transformed into the highly-acclaimed stage play The History Boys . Arise, Sir..., finishes on a light-hearted note, in which Bennett muses on the Honours List in typically iconoclastic mode.
Alan Bennett's television series Talking Heads has become a modern-day classic, as have many of his works for the stage, including Forty Tears On, The Lady in the Van, The Madness of George III (together with the Oscar-nominated screenplay The Madness of King George ) and an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows. The History Boys won the Evening Standard and Critics' Circle awards for Best Play, the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play the South BankAward and six Tony Awards.
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