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4 books read for LibriVox

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The Home and the World Rabindranath Tagore, translated by Surendranath Tagore
The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Radcliffe
You follow Emily St Aubert from sunlit France into the oppressive corridors of Udolpho, where music, shadows, and a black veil keep your nerves pleasantly busy. It’s long, ornate, and sometimes dramatically overwrought, but the atmosphere is so carefully sustained that the castle starts haunting you too.
The Wheels of Chance H. G. Wells
What’s Wrong with the World G. K. Chesterton non-fiction
You get Chesterton’s cheerful contrarian mind at full stretch here, arguing for small property, family life, and ordinary people against modern systems, with jokes arriving in the middle of serious arguments. It’s lively but polemical and often dated, especially on women, so you read it for the provocations rather than a ready-made political program.

4 books read for LibriVox

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The Home and the World Rabindranath Tagore, translated by Surendranath Tagore
The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Radcliffe
You follow Emily St Aubert from sunlit France into the oppressive corridors of Udolpho, where music, shadows, and a black veil keep your nerves pleasantly busy. It’s long, ornate, and sometimes dramatically overwrought, but the atmosphere is so carefully sustained that the castle starts haunting you too.
The Wheels of Chance H. G. Wells
What’s Wrong with the World G. K. Chesterton non-fiction
You get Chesterton’s cheerful contrarian mind at full stretch here, arguing for small property, family life, and ordinary people against modern systems, with jokes arriving in the middle of serious arguments. It’s lively but polemical and often dated, especially on women, so you read it for the provocations rather than a ready-made political program.