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“mary dobson”

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  • Murderous Contagion

    A Human History of Disease

    by Mary Dobson ...
    Disease is the true serial killer of human history: the horrors of bubonic plague, cholera, syphilis, smallpox, tuberculosis and the like have claimed more lives and caused more misery than the depredations of warfare, famine and natural disasters combined.Murderous Contagion tells the compelling and at times unbearably moving story of the devastating impact of diseases on humankind - from the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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    Revolt of "Mother", The

    by Mary Wilkins-Freeman ...
    Narrated by Cathy Dobson ...

    Unabridged

    37 min

    Mary Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) was an American writer, best known for her stories reflecting the world of women fighting for dignity and independence from men. Her tales typically describe domestic settings and intimate relationships and are told with sensitivity and a poignancy which illuminates a bygone era in vivid detail."The Revolt of Mother" tells the story of a strong and self-reliant ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

    by Mary Shelley ...
    Narrated by Cathy Dobson ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 9 min

    Mary Shelley's classic gothic horror novel. The scientific young genius, Frankenstein, discovers a method for creating life in inanimate objects and sets about a project to build a human in his laboratory. He is successful in his aim, but in so doing, unleashes on the world a creature whose physical deformities make him repulsive to everyone who sets eyes on him. Starved of human affection, the ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

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    Brahman, the Tiger and the Six Judges, The

    by Mary Frere ...
    Narrated by Cathy Dobson ...

    Unabridged

    8 min

    Mary Eliza Isabella Frere (1845–1911) was an English author of the first English-language field-collected book of Indian storytales."The Brahman, the Tiger and the Six Judges" is the tale of an ungrateful tiger who gets his just desserts. The tiger has been captured, but persuades the passing Brahman to release him. When the Brahman does so, the tiger announces that he intends to eat him. But the ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Hired Baby, The

    by Marie Corelli ...
    Narrated by Cathy Dobson ...

    Unabridged

    49 min

    Marie Corelli (1855 - 1924) was an eccentric British novelist who enjoyed great literary success from the publication of her first novel in 1886 until World War I.Corelli's novels sold more copies than the combined sales of popular contemporaries, including Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Rudyard Kipling and she was the most widely read popular author of her day.Her fans included Winston ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Blind Man, the Deaf Man and the Donkey, The

    by Mary Frere ...
    Narrated by Cathy Dobson ...

    Unabridged

    17 min

    Mary Eliza Isabella Frere (1845–1911) was an English author of the first English-language field-collected book of Indian folk stories."The Blind Man, the Deaf Man and the Donkey" is a strange but compelling tale of two co-dependent friends who nonetheless mistrust each other. They find a donkey and a large container... and then when sheltering from a storm in what they mistake for a temple, they ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Punchkin

    by Mary Frere ...
    Narrated by Cathy Dobson ...

    Unabridged

    31 min

    Mary Eliza Isabella Frere (1845–1911) was an English author of works regarding India. She is most famous for her beautiful retellings of Indian fairy tales."Punchkin" is a traditional fairy tale about a Rajah with seven daughters. When he remarries, the princesses' stepmother is determined to do away with the girls and make her own daughter the heir to the throne. A series of adventures and trials ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Alligator and the Jackal, The

    by Mary Frere ...
    Narrated by Cathy Dobson ...

    Unabridged

    10 min

    Mary Eliza Isabella Frere (1845–1911) was an English author of the first English-language field-collected book of Indian folk tales."The Alligator and the Jackal" is the story of a jackal who narrowly escapes being eaten by an alligator on the banks of a river. Following this incident, the alligator is determined to catch the cunning jackal. The Jackal is equally determined not to be eaten. A ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    King is Dead, Long Live the King, The

    by Mary Coleridge ...
    Narrated by Cathy Dobson ...

    Unabridged

    17 min

    The King is Dead, Long Live the King by Mary Coleridge (1861-1907) has the simple directness of a fairy tale, albeit one which is run through with cynical irony.A king on his deathbed is granted one hour after death in which he may return to his kingdom. If during that hour, he finds three people who would wish him alive again, then he can indeed come back to life. The hour is spent learning some ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Let Loose

    by Mary Cholmondeley ...
    Narrated by Cathy Dobson ...

    Unabridged

    42 min

    Mary Cholmondeley (1859-1925) was an English novelist and short story writer. 'Let Loose' is a supernatural ghost story where a young architect wishes to research a unique fresco in the crypt of a remote and ancient parish church in Yorkshire.The parish clergyman is remarkably reluctant to hand over the keys to the crypt and sets some odd conditions to their use. On the subsequent days after the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Great Fairy Tale Collection, The

    Marvellous Tales from around the World

    by Andrew Lang, Maurice Baring, Marie Frere ...
    Narrated by Cathy Dobson ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 33 min

    A fascinating collection of some of the great—but less well known—fairy tales of all time.The Glass MenderThe Giant who had no HeartThe Gifts of the MagicianThe Miller, his Son and their AssPunchkinThe Enchanted KnifeThe MinstrelThe StonecutterThe ParrotThe Alligator and the JackalThe Stag at the PoolThe Cormorants of UdrostThe Three DogsThe Brahma... ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Mr. Tallent's Ghost

    by Mary Webb ...
    Narrated by Cathy Dobson ...

    Unabridged

    30 min

    Mary Webb (1881-1927) was an English Romantic novelist, short story writer and poet whose work is set chiefly in Shropshire.'Mr. Tallent's Ghost' is an amusing tale about an eccentric writer who likes to read his appalling and tedious novels aloud to his relatives...or indeed anyone who will listen. He persuades a lawyer to draw up a will devoting his entire fortune to funding the publication of ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus