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Peeps at People - Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Wit…

Written by a fictitious first-person narrator, this book puts a humorous spin on encounters with several famous people of the time. "I set forth from my office in London upon my pilgrimage to the shrines of the world's illustrious. Readers everywhere are interested in the home life of men who have made themselves factors in art, science, letters, and history, and to these people I was commissioned to go." -- Summary by TriciaG and from the book. (2 hr 31 min)

Chapters

Nansen

Mr. Hall Caine

Emperor William

Mr. Alfred Austin

Andrew Lang

Zola

Sir Henry Irving

Ian McLaren

Rudyard Kipling

The De Reszkes

Henryk Sienkiewicz

General Weyler