Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/330178to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Shoes of Fortune Author: Hans Christian Andersen Narrator: Emma Fenney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 25 minutes Release date: October 3, 2017 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: In The Shoes of Fortune a series of people who are dissatisfied with their lives, put on a pair of magic shoes that grants them the wishes. A civil servant who idealizes the middle ages, experiences all its inconveniences; a watchman lives the lonely life of his superior and endures a terrifying visit to the moon. The shoes pass from owner to owner until one exhausted wearer who wishes for rest and spiritual freedom, dies. Andersen concludes with a quote by Solon: Call no man happy until he rests in his grave.

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