
The Dark Angel
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Narrated by:
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Charlton Griffin
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By:
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Mika Waltari
Ancient Constantinople, the glorious capital of the Eastern Roman Empire for over 1,000 years, and the jewel of Christendom, is the setting for this incredible historical novel.
No other city in the world could compare with it in grandeur, splendor, and wealth. And when it fell to the Turks in 1453, it must have seemed like the end of the world to Christians. Famed author Mika Waltari takes us into the last months of this dying city as revealed in the diary of John Angelos, a strange man hopelessly in love with the daughter of an eminent Byzantine official. In this powerful novel which closely follows actual historical events and personalities, Waltari explores the passions and follies of a civilization on the brink of disaster. With shrewd psychological insight, Waltari provides us with an unbelievable tapestry of false hopes, dogged determination, and fanatic religious faith as seen through the eyes of the 15th century Greeks and Italians who valiantly defended the city to the bitter end.
With chaos and despair deepening into a pall of gloom, the sultan's huge army surrounds Constantinople and assaults its massive walls. We peer over the shoulder of John Angelos as he dons his armor and plunges into the tumultuous events taking place amid smoldering suspicions of betrayal and assassination. But as always, the beautiful Anna Notaras lingers in his imagination…Listeners will gain even greater enjoyment by perusing the Wikipedia article "Fall of Constantinople", as well as availing themselves of the accompanying maps.
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beautifully written with a top notch narration
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I Strongly Recomend, History Class!
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Same protagonist in every book
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Great until the end
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The description of the love relationship involving perpetual simpering and groveling, alternating with temper tantrums and manipulative tears, with repeated long rumination on “plucking the flower” is more commonly found in “bodice-ripping” romance novels, which I do not enjoy at all. I very nearly abandoned the book after one chapter of that. The narrator made it even worse, with a cracking falsetto voicing of the woman. I was only able to finish the book at all by keeping one finger on the skip button to get past that, which comprised about half of the novel. I wish I would never be subjected to anything like that again.
I realize the book was written a long time ago and the story took place far in the past, involving relationship mores and practices very different from ours today. That does not justify the horrible writing of the romance. I can’t imagine the author’s thought process as anything other than self-indulgent adolescent fantasizing. For that the performance was perfectly appropriate in a thoroughly sarcastic treatment of the text.
Historical story is great, romance story is awful
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Entrancing Tale of the Lost City of Constaninople
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the book is not complete.
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