The Three Musketeers by Alexandre DUMAS (1802 - 1870), translated by William ROBSON (1785 - 1863) Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, Romance Read by: Kristin LeMoine, Mark F. Smith, R. Francis Smith, shanda_w, Kevin Kivikko, David Barnes, Simon Taylor, Meredith Hughes, Kirsten Ferreri, Gesine, Clarke Bell, Thomas Davoren, firefly, chriss the girl, Anna Simon, Astreja Odinsdóttir, BLRossow, Urszula Pokojska, Jim Mowatt, Robin Cotter, J. M. Smallheer, Rick Measham, Susan Denney, Tamara R. Schwartz, Catharine Eastman, JemmaBlythe, Ezwa in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 55 - CAPTIVITY: THE FOURTH DAY 00:18:41 - 56 - CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY 00:51:06 - 57 - MEANS FOR CLASSICAL TRAGEDY 01:08:45 - 58 - ESCAPE 01:24:50 - 59 - WHAT TOOK PLACE AT PORTSMOUTH 01:48:14 - 60 - IN FRANCE 02:01:54 - 61 - THE CARMELITE CONVENT AT BETHUNE 02:31:49 - 62 - TWO VARIETIES OF DEMONS 02:42:38 - 63 - THE DROP OF WATER 03:10:13 - 64 - THE MAN IN THE RED CLOAK 03:25:46 - 65 - TRIAL 03:42:08 - 66 - EXECUTION 03:53:42 - 67 - CONCLUSION 04:14:40 - 68 - Epilogue The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a musketeer. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those are his friends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis -- inseparable friends who live by the motto, 'One for all, and all for one'.The Three Musketeers was first published in serial form in the magazine Le Siècle between March and July 1844. Dumas claimed it was based on manuscripts he had discovered in the Bibliothèque Nationale. It was later proven that Dumas had based his work on the book Mémoires de Monsieur D'Artagnan, capitaine lieutenant de la première compagnie des Mousquetaires du Roi (Memoirs of Mister D'Artagnan, Lieutenant Captain of the first company of the King's Musketeers) by Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras (Cologne, 1700). Dumas' version of the story covers the adventures of D'Artagnan and his friends from 1625 to 1628, as they are involved in intrigues involving the weak King Louis XIII of France, his powerful and cunning advisor Cardinal Richelieu, the beautiful Queen Anne of Austria, her English lover, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, and the Siege of La Rochelle. Adding to the intrigue are the mysterious Milady de Winter, and Richelieu's right-hand man, the Comte de Rochefort. (summary from wikipedia)Get Twenty Years After here.Get The Man in the Iron Mask here. More information: http://librivox.org/the-three-musketeers-by-alexandre-dumas/

Love and Freindship by Jane AUSTEN (1775 - 1817) Genre(s): Humorous Fiction Read by: Cori Samuel in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - 1 Letters 01 00:28:05 - 02 - 2 Letters 11 - 13 00:50:58 - 03 - 3 Letters 14 - 15 Love and Freindship [sic] is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790, when Austen was 14 years old. Love and Freindship (the misspelling is one of many in the story) is clearly a parody of romantic novels Austen read as a child. This is clear even from the subtitle, 'Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love,' which neatly undercuts the title.Written in epistolary form, it resembles a fairy tale as much as anything else, featuring wild coincidences and turns of fortune, but Austen is determined to lampoon the conventions of romantic stories, right down to the utter failure of romantic fainting spells, which always turn out dreadfully for the female characters.In this story one can see the development of Austen's sharp wit and disdain for romantic sensibility, so characteristic of her later novels.Summary revised from Wikipedia by Cori Samuel. Music from Schubert's Fantasy in C Major, at musopen.org. More information: http://librivox.org/love-and-freindship-by-jane-austen/