Michael Reuss

2 books read for LibriVox

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Les Misérables Victor Hugo, translated by Isabel F. Hapgood
Yes, it's huge, and Hugo will stop everything for fifty pages on the Paris sewers, but Jean Valjean lifting that cart, or the bishop handing over his candlesticks, will sit in your chest for years. Skim the digressions if you must; the mercy at the center holds.
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy
If you already like Sir Percy, this is the fun-size version: short, self-contained rescues where he slips into Paris in some grubby disguise, drawls his way past Chauvelin, and vanishes. Slighter than the novels, and the formula shows, but each little escape still lands.

2 books read for LibriVox

filter sort genre era audiobooks

Les Misérables Victor Hugo, translated by Isabel F. Hapgood
Yes, it's huge, and Hugo will stop everything for fifty pages on the Paris sewers, but Jean Valjean lifting that cart, or the bishop handing over his candlesticks, will sit in your chest for years. Skim the digressions if you must; the mercy at the center holds.
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy
If you already like Sir Percy, this is the fun-size version: short, self-contained rescues where he slips into Paris in some grubby disguise, drawls his way past Chauvelin, and vanishes. Slighter than the novels, and the formula shows, but each little escape still lands.