Adrian Stephens

4 books read for LibriVox

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Fanny’s First Play George Bernard Shaw
Shaw having fun with his own critics: a young woman's play gets staged anonymously, then actual reviewers bicker over who wrote it. Inside, two respectable kids come home from jail refusing to feel ashamed, and their parents' panic is funnier than it has any right to be.
The Conscious Lovers Richard Steele
You get an unusually tender eighteenth-century comedy, where Bevil’s decency matters more than clever plotting and Tom and Phillis keep the earnestness from becoming airless. It’s slow and openly sentimental, but its concern with kindness, duty, and emotional restraint still feels surprisingly intimate.
The Wyvern Mystery J. Sheridan Le Fanu
If you liked Uncle Silas but want something slower and stranger, this delivers: Alice hidden away at damp, lonely Carwell Grange, and a blind Dutchwoman whose scenes are genuinely frightening. It rambles a bit in the middle, but the dread when it lands is real.
You Never Can Tell George Bernard Shaw
Shaw in a genuinely sunny mood, which is rarer than you'd think. A broke dentist falls hard for a woman raised to be immune to romance, her chaotic twin siblings cause havoc, and a hotel waiter named William quietly out-wises everyone.

4 books read for LibriVox

filter sort genre era audiobooks

Fanny’s First Play George Bernard Shaw
Shaw having fun with his own critics: a young woman's play gets staged anonymously, then actual reviewers bicker over who wrote it. Inside, two respectable kids come home from jail refusing to feel ashamed, and their parents' panic is funnier than it has any right to be.
The Conscious Lovers Richard Steele
You get an unusually tender eighteenth-century comedy, where Bevil’s decency matters more than clever plotting and Tom and Phillis keep the earnestness from becoming airless. It’s slow and openly sentimental, but its concern with kindness, duty, and emotional restraint still feels surprisingly intimate.
The Wyvern Mystery J. Sheridan Le Fanu
If you liked Uncle Silas but want something slower and stranger, this delivers: Alice hidden away at damp, lonely Carwell Grange, and a blind Dutchwoman whose scenes are genuinely frightening. It rambles a bit in the middle, but the dread when it lands is real.
You Never Can Tell George Bernard Shaw
Shaw in a genuinely sunny mood, which is rarer than you'd think. A broke dentist falls hard for a woman raised to be immune to romance, her chaotic twin siblings cause havoc, and a hotel waiter named William quietly out-wises everyone.