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6 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.
Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome
Four kids sail a little dinghy to an island, pitch camp, and take everything gloriously seriously, right down to Nancy Blackett declaring war on them. Nothing terrible ever happens, which is the point; if you want a slow, sunlit book about competence and make-believe, this is it.
The Beggar’s Opera John Gay
The Birds Aristophanes, translated by The Athenian Society
The Birds Aristophanes
You get absurd political satire, shameless wordplay, and the wonderfully slippery Peisetairus, who talks a flock of birds into imagining a new city in the sky. It’s bawdy, strange, and occasionally more interested in a joke than a tidy plot, but the chorus and wild premise make it unusually vivid on the page.
The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer
The Wife of Bath alone is worth the price of admission, bragging about outliving five husbands before her story even starts. It's rowdy, gossipy, sometimes flat-out filthy, and the Middle English takes patience, so grab a good modern edition and read it out loud.

6 books read for LibriVox

filter sort 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.
Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome
Four kids sail a little dinghy to an island, pitch camp, and take everything gloriously seriously, right down to Nancy Blackett declaring war on them. Nothing terrible ever happens, which is the point; if you want a slow, sunlit book about competence and make-believe, this is it.
The Beggar’s Opera John Gay
The Birds Aristophanes, translated by The Athenian Society
The Birds Aristophanes
You get absurd political satire, shameless wordplay, and the wonderfully slippery Peisetairus, who talks a flock of birds into imagining a new city in the sky. It’s bawdy, strange, and occasionally more interested in a joke than a tidy plot, but the chorus and wild premise make it unusually vivid on the page.
The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer
The Wife of Bath alone is worth the price of admission, bragging about outliving five husbands before her story even starts. It's rowdy, gossipy, sometimes flat-out filthy, and the Middle English takes patience, so grab a good modern edition and read it out loud.