Graham Redman

3 libri letti per LibriVox

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Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling English
These beg to be read aloud, with all those rolling refrains ("the great grey-green greasy Limpopo River") and Kipling calling you O Best Beloved. The Elephant's Child alone earns it.
Moonfleet John Meade Falkner English
You follow John Trenchard through the Dorset village of Moonfleet, where smugglers, churchyards, and hidden passages give the story a wonderfully shadowy texture. The prose is old-fashioned and occasionally melodramatic, but the bond between John and the brooding Elzevir Block gives this adventure real feeling beneath its treasure-hunt machinery.
She H. Rider Haggard English
Ayesha is the reason to go: a two-thousand-year-old queen who talks philosophy while casually terrifying everyone, and she gets stranger the closer you look. The Victorian adventure trappings creak a bit (and the colonial attitudes with them), but the ending in the caves genuinely unsettles.

3 libri letti per LibriVox

filtra ordina genere epoca audiolibri

Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling English
These beg to be read aloud, with all those rolling refrains ("the great grey-green greasy Limpopo River") and Kipling calling you O Best Beloved. The Elephant's Child alone earns it.
Moonfleet John Meade Falkner English
You follow John Trenchard through the Dorset village of Moonfleet, where smugglers, churchyards, and hidden passages give the story a wonderfully shadowy texture. The prose is old-fashioned and occasionally melodramatic, but the bond between John and the brooding Elzevir Block gives this adventure real feeling beneath its treasure-hunt machinery.
She H. Rider Haggard English
Ayesha is the reason to go: a two-thousand-year-old queen who talks philosophy while casually terrifying everyone, and she gets stranger the closer you look. The Victorian adventure trappings creak a bit (and the colonial attitudes with them), but the ending in the caves genuinely unsettles.