Sean McKinley

3 libri letti per LibriVox

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Letters of Two Brides Honoré de Balzac, tradotto da R. S. Scott English
You watch Louise de Chaulieu and Renée de Maucombe write themselves into opposite ideas of womanhood, one chasing passionate feeling, the other building a life through marriage and motherhood. The letters can feel talky, but Balzac makes their intimacy, rivalry, and changing self-knowledge quietly absorbing.
Richard II William Shakespeare English
Richard is unbearable while he's winning and mesmerizing once he starts to lose, talking himself into and out of kingship in some of the most musical verse Shakespeare wrote. It's all poetry and no sword fights, so come for the language or not at all.
Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters English
You hear the dead of Spoon River speak from their graves, each brief epitaph exposing the grudges, compromises, lusts, and private tenderness their neighbors never saw. The voices contradict one another, so the town slowly becomes a messy human chorus rather than a neat moral lesson.

3 libri letti per LibriVox

filtra ordina genere epoca

Letters of Two Brides Honoré de Balzac, tradotto da R. S. Scott English
You watch Louise de Chaulieu and Renée de Maucombe write themselves into opposite ideas of womanhood, one chasing passionate feeling, the other building a life through marriage and motherhood. The letters can feel talky, but Balzac makes their intimacy, rivalry, and changing self-knowledge quietly absorbing.
Richard II William Shakespeare English
Richard is unbearable while he's winning and mesmerizing once he starts to lose, talking himself into and out of kingship in some of the most musical verse Shakespeare wrote. It's all poetry and no sword fights, so come for the language or not at all.
Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters English
You hear the dead of Spoon River speak from their graves, each brief epitaph exposing the grudges, compromises, lusts, and private tenderness their neighbors never saw. The voices contradict one another, so the town slowly becomes a messy human chorus rather than a neat moral lesson.