The Third Circle


Lu par David Wales

(4.3 stars; 9 reviews)

Sixteen short stories by the American novelist Benjamin Frank Norris Jr (1870-1902) who wrote predominantly in the naturalist genre. He lived and worked in San Francisco. His writing has been compared to Emile Zola, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Edith Wharton. His writings sometimes contain an anti-Semitic element. - Summary by Wikipedia and david wales (5 hr 34 min)

Chapitres

Introduction 7:06 Lu par David Wales
The Third Circle 18:36 Lu par David Wales
The House With The Blinds 16:35 Lu par David Wales
Little Dramas Of The Curbstone 13:24 Lu par David Wales
Shorty Stack, Pugilist 18:23 Lu par David Wales
The Strangest Thing 14:12 Lu par David Wales
A Reversion To Type 16:16 Lu par David Wales
Boom 11:39 Lu par David Wales
The Dis-Associated Charities 20:49 Lu par David Wales
Son Of A Sheik 14:54 Lu par David Wales
A Defense Of The Flag 17:47 Lu par David Wales
Toppan 18:25 Lu par David Wales
A Caged Lion 20:08 Lu par David Wales
This Animal Of A Buldy Jones 17:35 Lu par David Wales
Dying Fires 30:26 Lu par David Wales
Grettir At Drangey 39:56 Lu par David Wales
The Guest Of Honor 38:38 Lu par David Wales

Critiques

Good stories concealed in excessive wordiness.


(2.5 stars)

Some good stories in here, on unusual subjects, but obscured by excessive verbiage. I constantly found my focus drifting while waiting for anything that progressed the plot, and eventually, I had to skim read some of the stories online on Project Gutenberg to find out what actually happened.