
ADAM & EVE & PINCH ME
MARCHING TO ZION
DUSKY RUTH
WEEP NOT MY WANTON
PIFFINGCAP
THE KING OF THE WORLD
ADAM AND EVE AND PINCH ME
THE PRINCESS OF KINGDOM GONE
COMMUNION
THE QUIET WOMAN
A wandering narrator sets out on a rambling pilgrimage through a strange, sun‑lit wood, where the ordinary collides with the absurd. He encounters a rotund woman who hurls bread back at him, a lean stranger with a chin furuncle, and a procession of odd travelers—an old man pushing an ass, a one‑legged widow, a philosopher with a split mind. Their bizarre exchanges and vivid descriptions turn a simple stroll into a parade of comic caricatures and philosophical musings.
The voice is playful yet reflective, weaving humor with a lingering sense of aimlessness. As the journey stretches into the heat of summer, the narrator meets Monk, a massive, oddly graceful figure whose larger‑than‑life presence hints at deeper, unseen forces pulling the traveler forward. Listeners are invited into this early‑twentieth‑century tapestry of quirky encounters, where every encounter feels both a joke and a quiet meditation on the road ahead.
Language
en
Duration
~6 hours (386K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by ellinora, Craig Kirkwood, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Release date
2019-11-26
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1878–1957
Raised in poverty and largely self-taught, this English writer became one of the best-known short story voices of the early 20th century. His fiction is especially remembered for its vivid rural settings, ordinary people, and quietly magical turns of feeling.
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