icyjumbo (1964-2010)
3 livros lidos para o LibriVox
- She EnglishAyesha 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.
- The Beetle EnglishYou’ll enjoy its feverish Victorian weirdness, especially the shifting accounts of Robert Holt, Marjorie Lindon, and the unnervingly composed Paul Lessingham. It takes its time with melodrama and dread, then turns wonderfully lurid around an Egyptian threat that refuses to stay in one shape.
- Tom Brown’s School Days EnglishYou get muddy Rugby matches, cruel schoolboy hierarchies, and Tom’s uneasy attempts to become braver without becoming hard. Hughes can sermonize, but Dr Arnold’s moral seriousness and the friendship with East give the book real warmth, especially if you like old-fashioned school stories with rough edges.