1740er-Jahre

filtern sortieren Genre Epoche Hörbücher

An Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingDavid Hume~4 Std. Lesezeit English
You get a bracing lesson in how little your certainty rests on, especially in Hume’s discussion of cause and effect, where habit quietly replaces proof. The prose is clear but the argument asks you to slow down, making this rewarding if you enjoy having familiar assumptions politely dismantled.
ClarissaSamuel Richardson~64 Std. Lesezeit English
Fair warning, it's enormous and told entirely in letters, but that slowness is the point: you live inside Clarissa's mind as her family corners her and Lovelace charms and schemes. If you have patience for it, few books make you feel a trap closing this completely.
The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingHenry FieldingHörbuch (33 Std.) English
Fielding keeps interrupting his own story to chat with you, and that narrator ends up being half the fun. Tom is generous, reckless, hopeless around women, and easy to root for anyway.
The Indiscreet JewelsDenis Diderot, übersetzt von R. Freeman~5 Std. Lesezeit English
You get Sultan Mangogul using a magic ring to make women’s “jewels” speak, while Diderot pokes at vanity, hypocrisy, medicine, and sexual double standards. It’s bawdy, clever, and episodic rather than emotionally involving, best read for its impish arguments and wonderfully strange premise.

filtern sortieren Genre Epoche Hörbücher

An Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingDavid Hume~4 Std. Lesezeit English
You get a bracing lesson in how little your certainty rests on, especially in Hume’s discussion of cause and effect, where habit quietly replaces proof. The prose is clear but the argument asks you to slow down, making this rewarding if you enjoy having familiar assumptions politely dismantled.
ClarissaSamuel Richardson~64 Std. Lesezeit English
Fair warning, it's enormous and told entirely in letters, but that slowness is the point: you live inside Clarissa's mind as her family corners her and Lovelace charms and schemes. If you have patience for it, few books make you feel a trap closing this completely.
The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingHenry FieldingHörbuch (33 Std.) English
Fielding keeps interrupting his own story to chat with you, and that narrator ends up being half the fun. Tom is generous, reckless, hopeless around women, and easy to root for anyway.
The Indiscreet JewelsDenis Diderot, übersetzt von R. Freeman~5 Std. Lesezeit English
You get Sultan Mangogul using a magic ring to make women’s “jewels” speak, while Diderot pokes at vanity, hypocrisy, medicine, and sexual double standards. It’s bawdy, clever, and episodic rather than emotionally involving, best read for its impish arguments and wonderfully strange premise.