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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.
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 Secret of the Old Mill Franklin W. Dixon
You get a brisk, old-fashioned mystery where Frank and Joe Hardy follow counterfeit-money clues around an abandoned mill while trying to outwit genuinely nasty criminals. The plotting is simple and the dialogue dated, but the brothers’ teamwork and scrappy investigating make it easy to settle into.
Whose Body? Dorothy L. Sayers
A stranger's body turns up in a bathtub wearing nothing but a pince-nez, and Lord Peter Wimsey investigates mostly because it amuses him. The banter is the point here, though Sayers gives him real shell shock underneath, which keeps the froth from floating away entirely.

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.
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 Secret of the Old Mill Franklin W. Dixon
You get a brisk, old-fashioned mystery where Frank and Joe Hardy follow counterfeit-money clues around an abandoned mill while trying to outwit genuinely nasty criminals. The plotting is simple and the dialogue dated, but the brothers’ teamwork and scrappy investigating make it easy to settle into.
Whose Body? Dorothy L. Sayers
A stranger's body turns up in a bathtub wearing nothing but a pince-nez, and Lord Peter Wimsey investigates mostly because it amuses him. The banter is the point here, though Sayers gives him real shell shock underneath, which keeps the froth from floating away entirely.