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The Ruins

By: Constantin-François Chasseboeuf de Volney, Tarah Wheeler - editor
Narrated by: Tarah Wheeler
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Publisher's summary

Volney's classic, The Ruins, is the book that Frankenstein's creature learns to read from. Its call for an absolute separation between church and state was controversial enough that Thomas Jefferson, who had translated the first 20 chapters into English, tried to obscure his role in the American publication process to protect his run for the 1800 US presidency.

This is a new edition with an introduction by the editor, Tarah Wheeler.

  • New cover image uses the original maps in Volney's first French edition, owned by the editor
  • Multiple licensed images of ruins and the stories from the time
  • All in-text asterisk notes have been moved to numbered, cleaned endnotes

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

Public Domain (P)2022 Tarah Wheeler
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I can’t stand the narrator

Worst narrator ever. It’s like she’s trying to be ASMR but it sounds like she shoved the microphone up her butt until it was in her throat. I can hear saliva and boogers a gurgling noises and on top of that her voice is breathy and deep like she’s trying to be seductive the entire time. It grosses me out and I had to abandon this otherwise amazing book. My advice, get the microphone away from your face, try standing a few feet away from it instead of deep-throating it. This was awful and I’d like my money back.

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