Elsie Selwyn
4 libros leídos para LibriVox
- A Voice from the South no ficciónCooper writes like someone who knows she's the smartest person in the room and is tired of pretending otherwise; her line about when and where she enters still lands hard. Essays from 1892, sharp and sometimes formal, worth the patience if you like arguments built to last.
- You’ll enjoy this as a slim, gloriously baffling phrasebook, where sections on idioms, conversation, and letter-writing turn ordinary Portuguese into English that sounds almost right and then wanders off a cliff. It’s more curious comic artifact than sustained reading, perfect in small doses.
- You get absurd political satire, shameless wordplay, and the wonderfully slippery Peisetairus, who talks a flock of birds into imagining a new city in the sky. It’s bawdy, strange, and occasionally more interested in a joke than a tidy plot, but the chorus and wild premise make it unusually vivid on the page.