Rhonda Federman

3 libros leídos para LibriVox

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Edward III William Shakespeare
You get a rough, episodic history play with flashes of Shakespearean energy, especially in Edward’s pursuit of the Countess of Salisbury and the Black Prince’s battlefield speeches. It’s uneven and not wholly Shakespeare’s, but the mix of courtly temptation, war, and sudden moral seriousness makes it an intriguing afternoon read.
Medea Euripides
You watch Medea turn her intelligence and rhetorical skill against a city that has already decided she is disposable. The Nurse’s fearful opening and the Chorus’s uneasy sympathy make the play feel intimate, tense, and morally uncomfortable, not like a tidy revenge story.
The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler
You watch Ernest Pontifex struggle out from under his father Theobald’s pious cruelty, in a novel that skewers Victorian family life with dry, patient humor. It takes its time and occasionally wanders, but its anger at hypocrisy gradually opens into something humane and oddly liberating.

3 libros leídos para LibriVox

filtrar ordenar género época audiolibros

Edward III William Shakespeare
You get a rough, episodic history play with flashes of Shakespearean energy, especially in Edward’s pursuit of the Countess of Salisbury and the Black Prince’s battlefield speeches. It’s uneven and not wholly Shakespeare’s, but the mix of courtly temptation, war, and sudden moral seriousness makes it an intriguing afternoon read.
Medea Euripides
You watch Medea turn her intelligence and rhetorical skill against a city that has already decided she is disposable. The Nurse’s fearful opening and the Chorus’s uneasy sympathy make the play feel intimate, tense, and morally uncomfortable, not like a tidy revenge story.
The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler
You watch Ernest Pontifex struggle out from under his father Theobald’s pious cruelty, in a novel that skewers Victorian family life with dry, patient humor. It takes its time and occasionally wanders, but its anger at hypocrisy gradually opens into something humane and oddly liberating.