Lee Ann Howlett
6 libros leídos para LibriVox
- Sybylla Melvyn is prickly, vain, self-mocking, and completely alive, a teenage girl in dusty New South Wales who wants more than marriage and can't quite forgive herself for it. If you like narrators who argue with you (and themselves), she'll get under your skin.
- You need patience for James’s slow, knotted late prose, but the reward is precise: around Maggie Verver, Prince Amerigo, Charlotte Stant, and a beautiful golden bowl, every courtesy and pause carries emotional weight. It feels like watching clever people circle what they cannot say.
- The Humbugs of the World no ficciónYes, the great showman himself grousing about frauds, and the irony lands better than you'd expect. He goes after spirit mediums, quack medicines, the Moon Hoax, all in chatty anecdotes, and half the fun is watching him carefully separate his kind of humbug from the cruel kind.
- Mr. Crawley, a proud, half-broken country curate accused of stealing a twenty-pound cheque, is one of the most painfully real people Trollope ever wrote, and you'll ache for him. It's long and unhurried, but if you like character over plot, this rewards every page.
- You get the creeping unease of Mrs Bunting, who suspects her respectable new lodger may be hiding something terrible, while ordinary domestic manners carry on around her. It’s quiet, psychologically sharp suspense, more interested in dread and complicity than shocks, and its slow tightening feels remarkably nasty.
- You’ll like how Elizabeth Ann’s move from her anxious aunts to the Putney family turns ordinary things, cooking, school, getting lost, into small tests of courage and competence. It’s warm and funny, with a quietly radical faith in children’s judgment, though its old-fashioned manners and moralizing take a little patience.