Tom Crawford

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Antony and Cleopatra William Shakespeare English
These two aren't young lovers, they're middle-aged, vain, magnificent messes who keep wrecking empires over each other, and you half want to shake them. Stay for Enobarbus, the dry-eyed friend whose barge speech about Cleopatra is worth the whole play.
The Sea-Wolf Jack London English
You get soft literary critic Humphrey fished out of the sea and put to work by Wolf Larsen, a brutal captain who quotes Browning and argues philosophy between beatings. The debates aboard the Ghost are the real meat; the romance late on is thinner, honestly.
Troilus and Cressida William Shakespeare English
You get Shakespeare at his most sour and slippery here: Troilus and Cressida’s love story keeps colliding with Pandarus’s bawdy meddling, while Ulysses and Hector make the Trojan War feel tawdry rather than heroic. It’s strange, funny, and deliberately hard to settle into, but richly rewarding.

3 livros lidos para o LibriVox

filtrar ordenar gênero época

Antony and Cleopatra William Shakespeare English
These two aren't young lovers, they're middle-aged, vain, magnificent messes who keep wrecking empires over each other, and you half want to shake them. Stay for Enobarbus, the dry-eyed friend whose barge speech about Cleopatra is worth the whole play.
The Sea-Wolf Jack London English
You get soft literary critic Humphrey fished out of the sea and put to work by Wolf Larsen, a brutal captain who quotes Browning and argues philosophy between beatings. The debates aboard the Ghost are the real meat; the romance late on is thinner, honestly.
Troilus and Cressida William Shakespeare English
You get Shakespeare at his most sour and slippery here: Troilus and Cressida’s love story keeps colliding with Pandarus’s bawdy meddling, while Ulysses and Hector make the Trojan War feel tawdry rather than heroic. It’s strange, funny, and deliberately hard to settle into, but richly rewarding.