Phil Griffiths
5 libri letti per LibriVox
- Anna Karenina EnglishTolstoy follows Anna's affair and Levin's awkward farming life in parallel, and somehow the mowing scenes stay with you as long as the tragedy does. It's long and unhurried, but you come out knowing these people better than some of your actual relatives.
- No Name EnglishMagdalen 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.
- Resurrection EnglishYou follow Nekhlyudov as his comfortable life is unsettled by Maslova’s trial, then watch him confront the damage hidden inside respectable society. Tolstoy can be sermon-heavy here, but the prison scenes and Nekhlyudov’s uneasy moral awakening give the book a stern, searching force.
- The Duel EnglishYou spend most of it wanting to shake Laevsky, this lazy, self-excusing man rotting in a Black Sea town, while von Koren coldly argues he'd be better off dead. Then Chekhov quietly turns it, and you come out gentler about people, including yourself.
- Topsy-Turvy EnglishVerne in a mischievous mood: the same gun club from the moon adventure buys the North Pole and plans to tilt the Earth's axis with one colossal cannon shot, and nobody stops to ask if they should. Short, dry, and funnier than his reputation suggests, though heavy on arithmetic.