Neeru Iyer
8 livros lidos para o LibriVox
- Ethics EnglishYou find a severe, strangely liberating book here: Spinoza’s definitions and proofs lead from God or Nature to emotions, desire, and the hard-won freedom of understanding why you act. The geometric format is dry at first, but its account of jealousy, sadness, and steadiness feels remarkably intimate.
- Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil DeutschFaust, ein Gelehrter, der es satt hat, alles zu wissen und nichts zu fühlen, geht eine Wette mit Mephistopheles ein, der schärfsten und witzigsten Stimme des Stücks. Es führt von einer Hexenküche bis in Gretchens kleines Zimmer, und die Verse schwanken zwischen derben Witzen und echtem Herzschmerz.
- Gitanjali EnglishThese are short prose poems Tagore wrote as offerings to God, and they read like someone talking quietly to a friend, about waiting, boats, rain, flute music. Best taken one or two at a time before bed; if you rush it, the stillness that makes it work disappears.
- Married Love English
- The Humbugs of the World não ficção EnglishYes, the great showman himself grousing about frauds, and the irony lands better than you'd expect. He goes after spirit mediums, quack medicines, the Moon Hoax, all in chatty anecdotes, and half the fun is watching him carefully separate his kind of humbug from the cruel kind.
- The Mystery of 31, New Inn EnglishYou’ll like watching Dr. Thorndyke turn the odd physical details at 31 New Inn into evidence, with Freeman’s patient, almost laboratory-like reasoning doing the heavy lifting. It’s methodical rather than breathless, so it suits you when a mystery’s pleasure lies in thinking alongside the investigator.
- The Social Contract não ficção EnglishYou get a bracing argument about political freedom, especially in Rousseau’s insistence that obeying laws you help make is different from submitting to a ruler. The prose can feel abstract and combative, but his questions about inequality, citizenship, and the general will keep needling you afterward.
- The Wheels of Chance English