1862

8 libri · anni 1860 · secolo XIX

filtra ordina genere epoca audiolibri

Fathers and Children Ivan Turgenev, tradotto da Constance Garnett English
Bazarov swaggers in sneering at everything, love included, and then life quietly calls his bluff, which is where it starts to hurt. It's short, tender under its arguments, and the scenes with his aging parents will stay with you longer than any of the philosophy.
Lady Audley’s Secret M. E. Braddon English
Half the fun is watching Robert Audley, a lazy barrister who'd rather read French novels, get dragged into playing detective when his friend vanishes. It's Victorian gossip at its most deliciously wicked, and that portrait scene alone tells you Braddon knew exactly what she was doing.
Les Misérables Victor Hugo, tradotto da Isabel F. Hapgood English
Yes, it's huge, and Hugo will stop everything for fifty pages on the Paris sewers, but Jean Valjean lifting that cart, or the bishop handing over his candlesticks, will sit in your chest for years. Skim the digressions if you must; the mercy at the center holds.
No Name Wilkie Collins English
Magdalen Vanstone loses her whole inheritance on a legal technicality and decides to scheme it back, disguises and sham marriage included, and you spend the whole book rooting for someone doing genuinely dubious things. Captain Wragge, her con-artist accomplice, nearly steals it.
Romola George Eliot English
You have to settle into its dense Renaissance Florence, but Romola rewards you with a woman growing beyond her sheltered life while Tito Melema’s charm curdles and Savonarola’s certainty presses in. It’s morally serious, richly observed, and best when you want a slow, thoughtful read.
Salammbô Gustave Flaubert, tradotto da J. S. Chartres English
Flaubert rebuilding ancient Carthage stone by jeweled stone: Mâtho stealing the sacred veil, mercenaries starving in a gorge, everything gorgeous and cruel at once. If you can enjoy prose that lingers over temples and carnage equally, this is strange, heady stuff.
The House of the Dead Fyodor Dostoevsky, tradotto da Constance Garnett English
You spend time beside Aleksandr Goryanchikov in a Siberian prison camp, where petty cruelty, sudden kindness, and the prisoners’ strange little hierarchies matter more than plot. It’s episodic and sometimes austere, but Dostoevsky’s attention to people under pressure makes even the quiet observations stay with you.
The Small House at Allington Anthony Trollope English
Trollope takes his time, but Lily Dale getting jilted by Crosbie (a man too weak to be a proper villain) turns into something quietly devastating, and poor Johnny Eames will win you over. Good if you like watching ordinary people make believable mistakes at length.

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1862

8 libri · anni 1860 · secolo XIX

filtra ordina genere epoca audiolibri

Fathers and Children Ivan Turgenev, tradotto da Constance Garnett English
Bazarov swaggers in sneering at everything, love included, and then life quietly calls his bluff, which is where it starts to hurt. It's short, tender under its arguments, and the scenes with his aging parents will stay with you longer than any of the philosophy.
Lady Audley’s Secret M. E. Braddon English
Half the fun is watching Robert Audley, a lazy barrister who'd rather read French novels, get dragged into playing detective when his friend vanishes. It's Victorian gossip at its most deliciously wicked, and that portrait scene alone tells you Braddon knew exactly what she was doing.
Les Misérables Victor Hugo, tradotto da Isabel F. Hapgood English
Yes, it's huge, and Hugo will stop everything for fifty pages on the Paris sewers, but Jean Valjean lifting that cart, or the bishop handing over his candlesticks, will sit in your chest for years. Skim the digressions if you must; the mercy at the center holds.
No Name Wilkie Collins English
Magdalen Vanstone loses her whole inheritance on a legal technicality and decides to scheme it back, disguises and sham marriage included, and you spend the whole book rooting for someone doing genuinely dubious things. Captain Wragge, her con-artist accomplice, nearly steals it.
Romola George Eliot English
You have to settle into its dense Renaissance Florence, but Romola rewards you with a woman growing beyond her sheltered life while Tito Melema’s charm curdles and Savonarola’s certainty presses in. It’s morally serious, richly observed, and best when you want a slow, thoughtful read.
Salammbô Gustave Flaubert, tradotto da J. S. Chartres English
Flaubert rebuilding ancient Carthage stone by jeweled stone: Mâtho stealing the sacred veil, mercenaries starving in a gorge, everything gorgeous and cruel at once. If you can enjoy prose that lingers over temples and carnage equally, this is strange, heady stuff.
The House of the Dead Fyodor Dostoevsky, tradotto da Constance Garnett English
You spend time beside Aleksandr Goryanchikov in a Siberian prison camp, where petty cruelty, sudden kindness, and the prisoners’ strange little hierarchies matter more than plot. It’s episodic and sometimes austere, but Dostoevsky’s attention to people under pressure makes even the quiet observations stay with you.
The Small House at Allington Anthony Trollope English
Trollope takes his time, but Lily Dale getting jilted by Crosbie (a man too weak to be a proper villain) turns into something quietly devastating, and poor Johnny Eames will win you over. Good if you like watching ordinary people make believable mistakes at length.