The Greatest Nobodies of History

Minor Characters from Major Moments

De: Adrian Bliss

Narrado por: Adrian Bliss, Beth Rylance, Sebastian Humphreys, Kristin Atherton

“All at once funny, touching, dazzlingly informative and fascinating, brilliantly imaginative and altogether wonderful. Capable of switching between divine silliness and genuinely tender sweetness, tragedy, and wonder.”—STEPHEN FRY

History belongs to the heroes. But to get the full story, sometimes you have to ask the side characters.

The lives of Leonardo da Vinci, Henry VIII, and Queen Victoria fill bookshelves and fascinate scholars all over the world. But little attention is given to the ferret who posed for the Renaissance master, the servant who oversaw the Tudor’s toilet time, or the famous horse who thrilled the miserable old monarch.

These supporting cast members have been waiting in the wings for too long, and Adrian Bliss thinks it’s high time they join their glory-hogging contemporaries in the spotlight. Fortunately—thanks to some recently discovered ancient complaint letters, court transcripts, and memoirs in bottles—now they can.

Equal parts fascinating and hilarious, The Greatest Nobodies of History is a surreal love letter to life’s forgotten heroes, featuring hitherto undocumented accounts from Ancient Greece to the front lines of the Great Emu War.

All that follows really happened, and some of it could even be true.

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“All at once funny, touching, dazzlingly informative and fascinating, brilliantly imaginative and altogether wonderful. Capable of switching between divine silliness and genuinely tender sweetness, tragedy, and wonder.”—Stephen Fry

Very fun!

This creative take on history is a great listen. the narration was done really well and the stories are absolutely charming. I strongly recommend it!

Lots of fun!

Prefect reading! Hopefully there will be a volume 2 in the near future, and then a volume 3. Lots of wonderful moments that will stay with you!

Bizarre and Charming

If you would have told me a week ago that I would have literal tears in my eyes over a ferret who died 500 years ago, I'd have accused you of witchcraft. But I am a changed reader. ;'D. This was such a fun and bizarre adventure through history. It was honestly a delight to read.

I enjoyed the nuance

This was a fun book that definitely highlighted nuances in history and i enjoyed a lot of this book. I will say it made me cry and there were parts that I felt needed a trigger warning, mainly for animal death. But it could just be me.

The intricate weaving of the characters into the historical facts.

The characters that Adrian created. He is so clever in the way he describes the characters