Barry Pain
Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864–1928) was an English journalist, poet, humorist, and writer. Born in Cambridge, he was educated at Sedbergh School, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was a prominent contributor to The Granta magazine and is chiefly known as a writer of parody and lightly humorous stories.
All Books By Barry Pain
Play Sample
Eliza
- By: Barry Pain
- Narrator: Graham Scott
- Length: 2 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
-
A pompous and pooterish city clerk with social pretensions relates anecdotes of suburban life in Edwardian England, as he and his patient and long-suffering wife, Eliza, deal with various crises and contretemps—including the vexed question of... Read more
Most Popular Audiobooks
![Honor (3 of 3) [Dramatized Adaptation]](https://speechify.com/audiobooks/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2023/06/pr_eaudio_9781648800313_640px.jpg)
More free audiobooks
I’m the Girl
The program includes a bonus bridge story, Greetings from Sunny Los Angeles, featuring Dan Bittner as West McCray. “Narrator Lori Prince pulls listeners into the complicated world of teenagers with her portrayal of 16-year-old Georgia Avis, who longs to escape poverty and sees her beauty and sexuality as her ticket out.” – AudioFile magazineThe next searing and groundbreaking queer young ...
Read Book
Heroes Road: Volume Two (2 of 3) [Dramatized Adaptation]
“I have looked across the arc of my dreams and seen Coel’s death in all three hundred and sixty degrees of it. The circle of his destiny shall tighten like a noose upon him in less than one of your years…”Coel’s journey eastward with the sorcerer Reza Walladid earned him the wrath of the Hobgoblin Hordes the Lord of the Assassins. The terrible secret he discovered there could turn ...
Read Book
Ms. Hempel Chronicles
Ms. Beatrice Hempel, a seventh-grade teacher, is new to teaching, new to the school, newly engaged, and newly bereft of her devoted father. Overwhelmed by her newness, she struggles to figure out what is expected of her in life and at work. Is it acceptable to introduce swear words to the English curriculum, enlist students to write their own report cards, or bring up personal experiences while ...
Read Book
Beyond Shame
We all carry sexual shame. Whether we grew up in the repressive purity culture of American Evangelical Christianity or not, we’ve all been taught in subtle and not-so-subtle ways that sex (outside of very specific contexts) is immoral and taboo. Psychotherapist Matthias Roberts helps readers overcome their shame around sex by overcoming three unhealthy coping mechanisms we use to manage that ...
Read Book
The Planet You Inherit
For the first time ever, love letters consciously written by elders of one geologic epoch to the young of another.Our children’s and grandchildren’s generation will face a different world, one affected by climate instability, mass uncertainty, and breathtaking extinction. In fact, the next generation will face the reality that human activity is changing the planet from one geological epoch to ...
Read Book
Hedgie Blasts Off!
More than anything Hedgie wants to be an astronaut and travel into space. He gets his chance the day the geyser, Big Sparkler, starts to sputter and fade, disappointing all the alien tourists, who fly to the tiny planet of Mikkop to throw coins into Big Sparkler and look at the strange flowers that survive on its sparkles.
Because only Hedgie can fit into a small space ship, he flies to Mikkop, ...
Read Book
Keeping Faith
Fans of Picoult’s fluent and absorbing storytelling will welcome her new novel, which, like Harvesting the Heart, explores family dynamics and the intricacies of motherhood, and concludes, as did The Pact, with tense courtroom drama. In the small town of New Canaan, N.H., 33-year-old Mariah discovers that her husband, Colin, is having an affair. Years ago, his cheating drove Mariah to attempt ...
Read Book
Siege at Jadotville
The Irish soldier has never been a stranger to fighting the enemy with the odds stacked against him. The notion of charging into adversity has been a cherished part of Ireland’s military history. In September 1961, another chapter should have been written into the annals, but it is a tale that lay shrouded in dust for years.
The men of A Company, Thirty-Fifth Irish Infantry Battalion, arrived ...
Read Book
Wish Come True
After years spent in the shadow of her movie-star sister, Monica, Anna Vincenzi finally remakes herself. But when Monica is murdered, Anna is arrested as the prime suspect. Fortunately, Anna is not alone as she fights to exonerate herself. When a Carson Springs dweller as beloved as Anna needs help, all the valley’s residents rally together, each working in his or her own special way to help ...
Read Book
The Anarchist-Mage of Ziammotienth
Kaylin has been stuck in Waypoint for too long.She’s been busy fighting and leading the resistance, and she’s set to run her own crew, but that’s not much good if she’s still stuck in this city.She was made for more than this.Every day, Kaylin feels the urge growing, like an itch in the back of her mind. And the Mountain . . .The Mountain is calling to her.So what’s a girl to do but ...
Read Book
