Maire Rhode

4 books read for LibriVox

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A Strange Disappearance Anna Katharine Green
Q, the young detective who tells this one, is good company, quick with a disguise and a little vain about it, and watching him worry at why a sewing girl vanished from a rich man's house is half the fun. Expect Victorian melodrama under the sleuthing, and enjoy it anyway.
The Coming Race Edward Bulwer-Lytton
You get a wonderfully strange Victorian thought experiment: an unnamed narrator stumbles into a subterranean civilization powered by the mysterious Vril, where women hold authority and humans look rather primitive. It’s chatty and idea-heavy, sometimes clumsy, but rewarding if you enjoy old science fiction with social satire under the surface.
The Lost Stradivarius John Meade Falkner
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Brontë
Helen slamming her bedroom door against her charming drunk of a husband still feels startling. You get her whole diary, so the mystery widow becomes a woman you actually know, and it's angrier and braver than anything her sisters wrote.

4 books read for LibriVox

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A Strange Disappearance Anna Katharine Green
Q, the young detective who tells this one, is good company, quick with a disguise and a little vain about it, and watching him worry at why a sewing girl vanished from a rich man's house is half the fun. Expect Victorian melodrama under the sleuthing, and enjoy it anyway.
The Coming Race Edward Bulwer-Lytton
You get a wonderfully strange Victorian thought experiment: an unnamed narrator stumbles into a subterranean civilization powered by the mysterious Vril, where women hold authority and humans look rather primitive. It’s chatty and idea-heavy, sometimes clumsy, but rewarding if you enjoy old science fiction with social satire under the surface.
The Lost Stradivarius John Meade Falkner
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Brontë
Helen slamming her bedroom door against her charming drunk of a husband still feels startling. You get her whole diary, so the mystery widow becomes a woman you actually know, and it's angrier and braver than anything her sisters wrote.