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Les Miserables MP3 Audiobook (Unabridged)
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Les Miserables (Unabridged)
by Victor Hugo, Translated by Charles E. Wilbour
read by Frederick Davidson
Classic Literature • Unabridged
Book ID(1810) – 56.1 hrs (est.), Published – 12/01/98
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Set in the Parisian underworld and plotted like a detective story, Les Misérables follows the adventures of Jean Valjean, originally an honest peasant, who has been imprisoned for nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister’s starving family. A hardened criminal upon his release, he eventually reforms, becoming a successful industrialist and town mayor. Despite this, Valjean is haunted by an impulsive former crime and is pursued relentlessly by the police inspector Javert.
Hugo describes early nineteenth-century France with a sweeping power that gives his novel epic stature. Among the most famous chapters are an account of the battle of Waterloo and a description of Valjean’s flight through the Paris sewers.
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“Davidson’s exquisitely nuanced interpretation of Les Misérables expertly reflects the excellence of Hugo’s literary and political classic.”—Booklist
VICTOR HUGO (1802-1885) was a poet, novelist, dramatist, and leader of the Romantic movement in France. He also played an active part in political life. His literary works best known in English include Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Ninety-Three.
Les Miserables MP3 Audiobook (Abridged)
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Les Miserables (Abridged)
by Victor Hugo
read by Frederick Davidson
Classic Literature • Abridged
Book ID(1900) – 13 hrs (est.), Published – 12/01/98
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Les Miserables is a romantic novel packed with revealing incidents of slum life and poverty in nineteenth-century France. The core of the book deals with Jean Valjean, a criminal who serves as an example of the misery and contradictions of society with which Victor Hugo was especially concerned. Les Miserables is both a powerful social document and an extremely interesting and dramatic narrative, which is the culmination of fourteen years of work and is Hugo’s masterpiece.
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“When I was 15, I was completely bowled over by Les Miserables. All my life long I have continually been discovering fresh aspects of Hugo’s genius.”-Andre Maurois
VICTOR HUGO (1802-1885) was a poet, novelist, dramatist, and leader of the Romantic movement in France. He also played an active part in political life. His literary works best known in English include Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Ninety-Three.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame MP3 Audiobook
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by Victor Hugo
read by Frederick Davidson
Classic Literature • Unabridged
Book ID(1765) – 15.4 hrs (est.), Published – 12/01/98
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Set amid the riot, intrigue, and pageantry of medieval Paris, Victor Hugo’s masterful tale of heroism and adventure has been a perennial favorite since its first publication in 1831. It is the story of Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer of the Notre Dame Cathedral, who falls in love with the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda. When Esmeralda is condemned as a witch by Claude Frollo, the tormented archdeacon who lusts after her, Quasimodo attempts to save her; but his intentions are misunderstood. Written with a profound sense of tragic irony, Hugo’s powerful historical romance remains one of the most thrilling stories of all time.
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“What a beautiful thing Notre-Dame is!” —Gustave Flaubert
VICTOR HUGO (1802–1885) was a poet, novelist, dramatist, and leader of the Romantic movement in France. He also played an active part in political life. His literary works best known in English include Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Ninety-Three.
Ninety-Three MP3 Audio book
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Ninety-Three
by Victor Hugo
read by Frederick Davidson
Classic Literature • Unabridged
Book ID(2571) – 13 hrs (est.), Published – 05/01/00
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Translated by Frank Lee Benedict
It is 1793 in France, the year of the guillotine. Already, Louis XVI has been sentenced to the scaffold, and terror reigns. Ideals topple in the face of political necessity, alliances founder, and intrigue is a way of life.
The architects of the Revolution — Marat, Danton, and Robespierre — have set up an embryo parliament called the Convention, designed to stem social chaos.
It is 1793, and in Vendee a peasant woman is striving desperately to protect her three children while Republican troops engage in bloody battle with counter-revolutionaries.
It is 1793; ideals topple in the face of political necessity, alliances founder, intrigue is a way of life.
And in Ninety-Three, Victor Hugo’s inspired last novel, that tumultuous year’s events are woven into an epic masterpiece that brilliantly captures the moment that shaped the destiny not only of France but of all of European monarchy.
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“One of the loftiest achievements of Hugo’s genius.”—Saturday Review
“The book is full of pregnant and splendid sayings. There are scenes of inimitable workmanship. Ninety-Three is equal to anything that Hugo has ever written.”-Robert Stevenson
VICTOR HUGO (1802–1885) was a poet, novelist, dramatist, and leader of the Romantic movement in France. He also played an active part in political life. His literary works best known in English include Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Ninety-Three.
Ivanhoe MP3 Audiobook
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Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
read by Frederick Davidson
Classic Literature • Unabridged
Book ID(2338) – 20.4 hrs (est.), Published – 01/01/99
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Set in England during Richard I’s reign, Sir Walter Scott’s fanciful, vivid reinterpretation of medieval life is a successful blend of fact, myth and romance.
Wilfred of Ivanhoe earns his father’s disapproval by falling in love with Rowena, his father’s ward. Then he serves with Richard I during the Crusades, while the King’s brother attempts to take the throne in Richard’s absence. When the King and Ivanhoe return, a series of adventures take place against the backdrop of a tournament of the Knights Templar. Ivanhoe catches the eye of Rebecca, a beautiful and courageous Jewess; he is taken prisoner, along with his father and hers, and Rowena as well; and they rely upon one Locksley (Robin Hood) and his band of outlaws to set them free. When Rebecca is subsequently charged with witchcraft, she asks Ivanhoe to champion her in a trial by combat…but have his affections shifted, or does he still love Rowena?
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“The real epic of our age.”—Victor Hugo
“Walter Scott is out and away the king of the romantics.”—Robert Louis Stevenson
SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832), Scottish novelist and poet, is known as the father of both the regional and historical novel. His early works were successful verse romances, but he achieved lasting fame with his prose. His Scottish romances, such as Waverly and Rob Roy, were followed by novels of the reconstructed past, including Ivanhoe and The Talisman. A law clerk, sheriff, baronet, and part owner of a publishing house, he lost everything during a depression and spent the last years of his life writing to pay off his debts. Some say he wrote himself to death.
Quo Vadis Audiobook
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Quo Vadis
Subtitle: A Narrative of the Time of Nero
by Henryk Sienkiewicz
read by Frederick Davidson
Classic Literature • Unabridged
Book ID(2537) – 20.4 hrs (est.), Published – 03/01/00
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Translated by Jeremiah Curtin
Written nearly a century ago and translated into over 40 languages, this masterpiece of historical fiction is one of the best-selling novels in history and the inspiration for the MGM motion picture of 1951. An epic of love and courage in Nero’s time, it illustrates the conflict of moral ideas within the Roman Empire at the dawn of Christianity.
Marcus, a Roman officer in Nero’s army, risks his career, his family, and even his life when he falls in love with a Christian woman named Callina. In order to win Callina’s love, Marcus must come to understand the true meaning of her religion, even as Rome sinks under the excesses of Nero and Christians are thrown to the lions. Quo Vadis brims with the passion and life as it explores one of the turning points in history.
HENRYK (Adam Alexander Pius) SIENKIEWICZ (1846-1916) was a novelist, born in Wola Okrzejska, Poland. He studied at Warsaw, traveled in the USA, and in the 1870s began to write articles, short stories, and novels. His major work was a war trilogy about 17th century Poland, beginning with Ogniem i mieczem (1884, With Fire and Sword), but his most widely known book is the story of Rome under Nero, Quo Vadis? (1896), several times filmed, notably in 1951 by Mervyn Le Roy (1900-87). He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905.
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