Eliza cover art

Eliza

 Preview

Audible Standard 30-day free trial

Try Standard free
Select 1 audiobook a month from our entire collection.
Listen to your selected audiobooks as long as you're a member.
Get unlimited access to bingeable podcasts.
Standard auto renews for £5.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Eliza

By: Barry Pain
Narrated by: Roy Macready
Try Standard free

£5.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for £9.42

Buy Now for £9.42

About this listen

Eliza was the first volume of the Eliza Stories by Barry Pain (1864-1928). It was published in 1900 and was the first of these stories that appeared in cheap editions and were sold on railway bookstalls. The stories were hugely popular and made Pain's name. Although the book is titled Eliza, it is her husband who is its comic hero.

The husband, whose name we never learn, is an overbearing, pretentious prig who believes he is right about everything but is constantly undermined and proved wrong by his long-suffering wife. He is without doubt one of the great comic creations in the tradition of Mr Pooter in The Diary of a Nobody.

Public Domain (P)2017 Spiders' House Audio/Roy Macready Classics Marriage
All stars
Most relevant
I enjoyed this and wish Audible would provide the further three collections of 'Eliza' stories - this was just the first volume.

An effective reading of some favourite stories

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.