Kathrine Engan
6 livros lidos para o LibriVox
- Los cuentos de Quiroga son crueles: una joven esposa que se consume sobre un almohadón de plumas, cuatro hermanos desatendidos que ven a una sirvienta matar una gallina. Muchos transcurren en la selva de Misiones, donde el calor y los animales son tan peligrosos como las personas, así que ten cuidado si eres impresionable.
- Lay Down Your Arms EnglishMartha starts as an Austrian countess who thinks war is glorious, then it takes her first husband at Solferino and keeps coming for everyone she loves. It's earnest and sometimes preachy, but her fury feels earned, and knowing Suttner wrote it decades before 1914 gives it a chill.
- Poetry EnglishPessoa writes as four different poets, invented people with their own biographies, and each one feels real: Caeiro the shepherd who distrusts thinking, Campos howling in the Tobacco Shop. If you like poetry that argues with itself about who's even speaking, this gets under your skin.
- The Comedy of Errors EnglishYou get a wonderfully fast, physical farce from the twin Antipholuses and twin Dromios, with everyone confidently mistaking the wrong man for someone they know. It’s deliberately slight and noisy, but the escalating confusion, especially around Adriana’s furious domestic arguments, makes Shakespeare feel surprisingly loose and playful.
- The Kalevala EnglishYou get a strange, musical world of singing contests, forged treasures, marriages, feuds, and spells, with Väinämöinen winning battles through knowledge as often as force. The episodes feel uneven and dreamlike, but the repeated charms and the bleak Kullervo story stay with you.
- The Taming of the Shrew EnglishThe fun is watching Kate and Petruchio trade insults at full speed, two clever people who've finally met their match. Fair warning, the "taming" itself sits uneasily now, and Kate's last speech will either charm you or make you argue with the page.