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Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 3: Martin Guerre
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
Martin Guerre was a French peasant that, during a long absence, was famously impersonated in the 16th century. Although the real Martin Guer…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 7: Part 1: Ali Pacha
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
Ali Tepeleni, Pacha of Janina, rose to power during the early 1800s in one of the Ottoman Empire’s most unruly territories (Albania). His fe…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 7: Part 2: Countess de Saint-Geran
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
This story details the crimes and trial surrounding the unexpected pregnancy and subsequent childbirth of the Countess de Saint-Geran in 164…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 7: Part 3: Murat
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Alexandre Dumas
Amidst the political winds from Napoleon’s downfall, this tale turns our attention to the flight of a former French marshal and King of Napl…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 1: The Marquise de Brinvilliers
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
The crimes of the Marquise of Brinvilliers, a French aristocrat during the reign of Louis XIV, included some of the most famous murders, sca…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 2: Vaninka
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
The story of Vaninka, generally regarded as the most fictionalized of Dumas’ Celebrated Crimes series, occurs during the short and eccentric…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 3: The Marquise de Ganges
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Alexandre Dumas
The assassination of Diane de Joannis de Chateaublanc (the Marquise de Ganges) is a fitting tale to conclude Dumas’ celebrated crimes series…
Candide (version 3)
Read by John Van Stan
Voltaire
Ever since 1759, when Voltaire wrote "Candide" in ridicule of the notion that this is the best of all possible worlds, this world …
The d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 1: The Three Musketeers (version 3)
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
The d'Artagnan Romances are six volumes that intertwine exciting events (real and fictionalized) from 17th-century Europe and the life of th…
The d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 2: Twenty Years After (version 2)
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
Volume 2 of The d'Artagnan Romances begins twenty years after "The Three Musketeers." Since then, d'Artagnan's career has stagnate…
A Christmas Carol (Version 11)
Read by John Van Stan
Charles Dickens
The classic Christmas story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley an…
The d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 3, Part 1: The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later
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Alexandre Dumas
Volume 3 of The d'Artagnan Romances is divided into three parts. The first begins in 1660, ten years after Volume 2, with d’Artagnan as Lieu…
The d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 3, Part 3: The Man in the Iron Mask (version 2)
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
Volume 3 of The d'Artagnan Romances is divided into three parts. In this, the final part, d’Artagnan’s fortune is near its height; having be…
The House on the Borderland (Version 2)
Read by John Van Stan
William Hope Hodgson
This story helped propel 19th Century gothic fiction in the direction of “cosmic” horror. In fact, H.P. Lovecraft lists it as among his grea…
Short Stories (Version 2)
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
This is a collection of short stories written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Dostoevsky), who is arguably better-known for his lengthy, contemplativ…
Moral letters to Lucilius (Epistulae morales ad Lucilium)
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Seneca the Younger’s letters to his friend, Lucilius Junior, appear to have been written with a broad audience in mind. These letters introd…
The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 1: Balsamo, The Magician
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Alexandre Dumas
This is the first volume of Dumas' Marie Antoinette Romances (also called "The Memoirs of a Physician"). This historical fiction c…
The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 2: The Mesmerist's Victim
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Alexandre Dumas
This 2nd volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances continues the intrigues of "Balsamo, The Magician" and adds to them the schemes o…
The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 3: The Queen's Necklace (Version 2)
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Alexandre Dumas
This 3rd volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins a decade after the close of "The Mesmerist’s Victim” and is based on a real sca…
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (version 2) (includes annotations)
Read by John Van Stan
Friedrich Nietzsche
The modern British philosopher, Anthony M. Ludovici, said that this text “is unquestionably Nietzsche’s opus magnum.” However, he warns the …