Celebrated Crimes
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Book 1
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The Borgias
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 1
- By: Alexandre Dumas père
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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To paraphrase the note from the translator, The Celebrated Crimes of Alexandre Dumas père was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language - has minced no words - to describe violent scenes of violent times. In this, the first of the series, Dumas tells the luridly sexy, amazingly violent, and strikingly amoral story of the three most famous members of the Borgia family - Pope Alexander VI, Lucrezia, and above all Cesare.
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The Borgias
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 1
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 04-04-14
- Language: English
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Book 2
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The Cenci
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 2
- By: Alexandre Dumas père
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
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To paraphrase the note from the translator, The Celebrated Crimes of Alexandre Dumas père was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language - has minced no words - to describe violent scenes of violent times. In particular, the torture of Beatrice Cenci at the hands of the authorities of Rome is given in brutal and clinical detail, sparing nothing.In this, the second of the series, Dumas tells the frankly horrifying story of the tragic sons and daughers of Francesco Cenci.
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The Cenci
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 2
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Release date: 04-25-14
- Language: English
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Book 3
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The Massacres of the South
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 3
- By: Alexandre Dumas père
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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To paraphrase the note from the translator, The Celebrated Crimes of Alexandre Dumas père was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language - has minced no words - to describe violent scenes of violent times. In this, the third of the series, Dumas tells the story of three centuries of sectarian violence and civil war between the Protestants and the Catholics of the south of France.
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The Massacres of the South
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 3
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 06-20-14
- Language: English
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Book 4
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Celebrated Crimes - Volume Three
- By: Alexandre Dumas
- Narrated by: Cate Barratt
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
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The prolific Alexandre Dumas, père, first published his famous eight-volume crime series in Paris in 1845. It contained 18 stories which, as the author notes in the introduction, had “the added value of giving the modern reader a clear picture of the state of semi-lawlessness which existed in Europe, during the middle ages.” In Volume 3, Dumas relates the tragic fate of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, following the death of her husband, Lord Darnley.
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Celebrated Crimes - Volume Three
- Narrated by: Cate Barratt
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 07-23-18
- Language: English
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Mary Stuart
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 4
- By: Alexandre Dumas
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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In this, the fourth of the series, Dumas tells the story of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots - a story both strikingly touching and almost morbidly violent. Never one to allow a mere fact to stand in the way of a good story, though very sympathetic to Mary, Dumas puts all the most sensational accusations made against her - mostly by her enemies - to circumspect yet full use, which certainly distorts history, but makes for a great tale.
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Mary Stuart
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 4
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 07-02-14
- Language: English
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Book 5
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Karl-Ludwig Sand
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 5
- By: Alexandre Dumas père
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
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To paraphrase the note from the translator, The Celebrated Crimes of Alexandre Dumas père was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language - has minced no words - to describe violent scenes of violent times. In this, the fifth of the series, Dumas tells the story of Karl-Ludwig Sand, a man little known to the English-speaking world, but famous among German speakers; he was the man who assassinated August von Kotzebue, a vigorous advocate of Russia's interests and the interests of the Austrian Empire. In the years immediately following the fall of Napoleon, many people in Germany, particularly young people, were eagerly anticipating the coming of liberal government. Much to their dismay, the autocratic governments existing before the war were not only re-established, but put great energy to ensuring that a liberal revolution would never happen. Karl-Ludwig Sand, a young German student, became convinced that Kotzebue was the key figure in this wave of repression. He made up his mind to kill the man, and kill him he did.
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Karl-Ludwig Sand
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 5
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 08-06-14
- Language: English
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Book 6
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Urbain Grandier
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 6
- By: Alexandre Dumas père
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
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In this, the sixth of the series, Dumas tells the story of Urbain Grandier, a Catholic priest, little known to the English-speaking world, but famous among French speakers; he was the target of a religous and political conspiracy that began among his personal and political enemies in the town of Loudon and ended at the highest levels of political and religious power in the kingdom of France, with the direct involvement of Cardinal Richelieu and possibly of the king himself.
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Urbain Grandier
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 6
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 09-24-14
- Language: English
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Book 7
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Nisida
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 7
- By: Alexandre Dumas père
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
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The story of Nisida is worthy of an Italian opera in the great romantic tradition, and indeed Donizetti attempted it, but without success. It is the story of an attempt by a womanizing nobleman to seduce and ruin the daughter of a poor but admirable fisherman, an attempt that ends in his death at the hands of her brother, who is then sentenced to die and is executed, but not by the hands of the law. The story is told in lush and melodramatic style, tending in places to comedy.
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Nisida
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 7
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
- Release date: 10-16-14
- Language: English
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Book 8
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Antonin Derues
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 8
- By: Alexandre Dumas père
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
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To paraphrase the note from the translator, The Celebrated Crimes of Alexandre Dumas pere was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language - has minced no words - to describe violent scenes of violent times. In this, the eighth of the series, Dumas explores the depths of a soul, that of Antonin Derues, a man capable of the most amazing hypocrisy, perfidy, and cruelty.
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Antonin Derues
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 8
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 11-11-14
- Language: English
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Celebrated Crimes, Volume V
- By: Alexandre Dumas
- Narrated by: Cate Barratt
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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The prolific Alexandre Dumas, père, first published his famous eight-volume crime series in Paris in 1839-40. It contained 18 stories, which, as the author notes in the introduction, had “the added value of giving the modern reader a clear picture of the state of semi-lawlessness which existed in Europe, during the middle ages.” In Volume 5, Dumas relates the lengths to which Antoine Derues will go in his pursuit of money, and the consequences of the dark works of Marie Leroux and her partner Claude Perregaud.
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Celebrated Crimes, Volume V
- Narrated by: Cate Barratt
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 06-07-18
- Language: English
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Book 9
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La Constantin
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 9
- By: Alexandre Dumas
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
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To paraphrase the note from the translator, the Celebrated Crimes of Alexandre Dumas père was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language - has minced no words - to describe violent scenes of violent times.In this, the ninth of the series, Dumas uses the lives of two women, Angelique-Louise de Guerchi and Josephine-Charlotte Boullenois, and the men who, to put it bluntly, control their lives.
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La Constantin
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 9
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 12-09-14
- Language: English
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Book 10-12
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Celebrated Crimes - Volume Six
- By: George Burnham Ives - translator, Alexandre Dumas
- Narrated by: Linda Barrans
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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In Celebrated Crimes [eight volumes: this version, 1895], Dumas the elder, recognised master of historical fiction (The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers) turns to historical fact. In this volume: Joan of Naples. The much-married queen does what she must to survive ‘the violence and treachery of this barbarous age’. ‘An angel soiled by crime, she lied like Satan himself .’ The Man in The Iron Mask (an essay). How much of the well-known story is fact, and how much fiction?
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Celebrated Crimes - Volume Six
- Narrated by: Linda Barrans
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 06-19-18
- Language: English
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Book 10
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Joan of Naples
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 10
- By: Alexandre Dumas père
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
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In this, the 10th of the series, Dumas places us at the court of Joan of Naples, a beautiful, emotional, highly capable woman at the center of 30 years of plotting, betrayal, intrigue, war, beauty, love, and death. Hers is a world at war between both secular and ecclesiastical centers of power: the Pope at Avignon, the king in France, the emperor in Germany, and most importantly for her story, the kings of Hungary, so far away in culture and temperament, so close across the Adriatic Sea.
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Joan of Naples
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 10
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 01-16-15
- Language: English
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Book 11
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The Man in the Iron Mask
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 11
- By: Alexandre Dumas
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
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Ever since the time of Louis XIV, the story has been told of a man mysteriously snatched out of the world and buried for life not merely in a prison cell but also in an mask of iron: an imprisonment designed to ensure no one would ever know his name or even see his face. Dumas asks: Who was the man in the iron mask? Why was he imprisoned? Why were such strange precautions taken, and why was he treated with such respect and care, given everything he asked for--except his freedom and his name?
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The Man in the Iron Mask
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 11
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 02-06-15
- Language: English
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Book 12
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Martin Guerre
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 12
- By: Alexandre Dumas
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
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In this, the twelfth of the series, Dumas, the novelist-historian, is back in full force. His subject is a well-documented historical fact: that a man named Arnaud du Thil was able to pass for two years as Martin Guerre, deceiving villages, neighbors, friends, family, and even the wife of Martin Guerre with equal success, even to the point of becoming the father of two children by Martin Guerre's wife.
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Martin Guerre
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 12
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
- Release date: 03-03-15
- Language: English
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Book 13
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Ali Pasha
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 13
- By: Alexandre Dumas Père
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
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In this, the 13th of the series, Dumas, the novelist-historian, finds ample scope for his favorite approach. His subject is a well-documented historical figure: Ali Tepelini, most often known as Ali Pasha and known even in his own day as The Lion of Tepelen. Dumas presents us with an extraordinary character, a man of tremendous courage, unstoppable tenacity, matchless duplicity, extreme debauchery, disgusting cruelty, and amazing ingenuity.
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Ali Pasha
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 13
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 04-08-15
- Language: English
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Book 14
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The Countess of Saint-Geran
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 14
- By: Alexandre Dumas
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
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The Celebrated Crimes of Alexandre Dumas père was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language - has minced no words - to describe violent scenes of violent times. In this, the 14th of the series, Dumas, the novelist-historian, brings his storytelling skills to a famous subject: the background of one of the most famous of French lawsuits, centering around the secret abduction of Bernard de la Guiche, later count of Saint-Geran, from his mother, Suzanne de Longaunay, by the marquis de Saint-Maixant.
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The Countess of Saint-Geran
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 14
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Release date: 05-06-15
- Language: English
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Book 15
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Murat
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 15
- By: Alexandre Dumas père
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
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In this, the 15th of the series, Dumas, the novelist-historian, brings his storytelling skills to a subject famous at the time but less so now: Joachim Murat, the brother-in-law of Napoleon Bonapart, who established him as King Joachim the First of Naples. Joachim is nothing if not an attractive, indeed romantic hero.
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Murat
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 15
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
- Release date: 06-15-15
- Language: English
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Book 16
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Marquise de Brinvilliers
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 16
- By: Alexandre Dumas père
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
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The marquise was tried, convicted, and executed for poisoning her father and two of her brothers. It appears that she learned the art of the poisoner from her lover, Godin de Sainte-Croix. She also targeted but did not kill her sister, a Carmelite nun. Her case launched what is known in French history as the Affair of the Poisons, a long-running judicial scandal that led to the execution or imprisonment of dozens of people, many of the highest rank in French society, including prominent members of the court of Louis XIV.
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Marquise de Brinvilliers
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 16
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 06-26-15
- Language: English
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Book 17
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Vaninka
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 17
- By: Alexandre Dumas
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
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In this, the 17th of the series, Dumas, in this case more a novelist than a historian, turns his attention to a story from Russia: that of Vaninka. Her father was a Russian count and a general in the Russian Imperial army under Paul I. She falls in love with one of her father's officers, whose tragic but accidental death leads her to a savage crime. Ironically, bringing her to justice requires a great perversion of justice itself.
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Vaninka
- Celebrated Crimes, Book 17
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 07-29-15
- Language: English
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