1846

3 books

sort era audiobooks

Poor Folk Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by C. J. Hogarth
You read the letters of Makar Devushkin and Varvara Dobroselova and feel how poverty presses on affection, pride, and ordinary dignity. It’s tender and quietly painful, with Makar’s fussy self-consciousness making the intimacy feel remarkably human.
The Devil’s Pool George Sand, translated by Jane Minot Sedgwick, Ellery Sedgwick
You get a gentle, quietly radical pastoral in which the widower Germain walks through the countryside with his little son, Petit-Pierre, and finds his ideas about marriage and respectability shifting. The pace is unhurried and the sentiment plainspoken, but the tenderness toward working people feels remarkably alive.
Typee Herman Melville
Melville before the whale, basically a young sailor jumping ship in the Marquesas and drifting into a valley paradise he can't quite trust. You get lazy afternoons with Fayaway on the lake, and underneath it a slow, itchy dread about whether his hosts eat people.

3 books

sort era audiobooks

Poor Folk Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by C. J. Hogarth
You read the letters of Makar Devushkin and Varvara Dobroselova and feel how poverty presses on affection, pride, and ordinary dignity. It’s tender and quietly painful, with Makar’s fussy self-consciousness making the intimacy feel remarkably human.
The Devil’s Pool George Sand, translated by Jane Minot Sedgwick, Ellery Sedgwick
You get a gentle, quietly radical pastoral in which the widower Germain walks through the countryside with his little son, Petit-Pierre, and finds his ideas about marriage and respectability shifting. The pace is unhurried and the sentiment plainspoken, but the tenderness toward working people feels remarkably alive.
Typee Herman Melville
Melville before the whale, basically a young sailor jumping ship in the Marquesas and drifting into a valley paradise he can't quite trust. You get lazy afternoons with Fayaway on the lake, and underneath it a slow, itchy dread about whether his hosts eat people.