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Desiree is married to a wealthy but violent captain of a fishing trawler. For ten years of marriage he terrorizes her, until one night his boat is wrecked at sea and he is never seen alive again. Four years later, Desiree buys an ill-tempered and foul-mouthed parrot in an auction, and a new nightmare begins.

Arthur George Morrison (1863-1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End. 'Dobbs' Parrot' is a cleverly constructed humorous story about a con artist who manages to swindle four people simultaneously by selling them all a parrot in a cage, despite the fact that he has neither parrot nor cage at the start of the story.

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 th master of humorous writing.

Acércate a este audiolibro para que, además, al igual que este pícaro personaje, seas en algunos ratos filósofo o barbero y, en otros, boticario, médico, asistente de coronel y hasta náufrago.