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    The Grey Parrot
    The Grey Parrot
    The Grey Parrot
    Audiobook27 minutes

    The Grey Parrot

    Written by W.W. Jacobs

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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    About this audiobook

    A jealous sailor husband, a pretty but bored young wife and a grey parrot with a masterly command of bad language and an attitude to match. The perfect ingredients for a slapstick comedy from the master of humorous writing.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateSep 27, 2013
    ISBN9781467654388
    The Grey Parrot
    Author

    W.W. Jacobs

    William Wymark Jacobs was an English author of short stories and novels. Quite popular in his lifetime primarily for his amusing maritime tales of life along the London docks (many of them humorous as well as sardonic in tone). Today he is best known for a few short works of horror fiction.

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