Nancy Gorgen
6 livros lidos para o LibriVox
- 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.
- Phoebe, Junior EnglishPhoebe is the fun here: clever, unsentimental, fully aware her grandfather sells butter and her suitor is a dull rich boy she could run like a business, and Oliphant lets her be right. Quiet, wry Victorian social comedy, so skip it if you need big drama.
- Struggles and Triumphs não ficção EnglishYou read this for Barnum’s shameless, fascinating account of turning hoaxes, curiosities, and publicity into a career, with the Jenny Lind tour and American Museum at its center. He is boastful and slippery about his own virtue, but that self-promotion is half the entertainment, especially if you enjoy watching a showman build his legend in real time.
- The Cask EnglishYou get a wonderfully methodical early police procedural, with Inspector French tracing a human body packed into a cask through shipping records, witnesses, and shifting alibis. It takes its time and occasionally feels procedural in the old-fashioned sense, but the patient reconstruction is quietly satisfying.
- Ticket No. 9672 EnglishYou get a gentler Verne here, set among Norwegian fjords, where Hulda and Joël face the emotional weather of a lottery ticket that may change everything. It’s more romantic suspense and local color than science fiction, with a pleasantly old-fashioned, unhurried feel.
- Tracks in the Snow EnglishA murder among friends, with a snowfall's tracks at the heart of the evidence, told by a thoughtful Edwardian narrator. Written before detective fiction hardened into formula, so it moves slowly and treats guilt as a moral fact, not just a solution.