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Plays

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Alexandre Dumas - Paul Jones

Dumas's play talks of American Naval Hero John Paul Jones's romantic entanglements and affairs of honor ashore in France. He later converted it to a novel. — Summary by ToddHW Cast list: The Marquis D'Auray:...

2 hours 28 minutes

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Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 3: The Marquise de Ganges

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Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 3: The Marquise de Ganges

The assassination of Diane de Joannis de Chateaublanc (the Marquise de Ganges) is a fitting tale to conclude Dumas’ celebrated crimes series. This event was as gruesome as it was brazen and, before the final dagger...

John Van Stan 2 hours 14 minutes

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Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 2: Vaninka

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Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 2: Vaninka

The story of Vaninka, generally regarded as the most fictionalized of Dumas’ Celebrated Crimes series, occurs during the short and eccentric rule of Emperor Paul I of Russia. Vaninka is a general’s daughter whose love...

John Van Stan 2 hours 12 minutes

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Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand

Biography & Autobiography

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Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand

This is the fourth volume of Alexandre Dumas' studies of celebrated crimes and their perpetrators. This volume is concerned with the story of Karl Ludwig Sand, who stabbed August von Kotzebue to death in 1819. August...

mbm0rxi and 2 more 2 hours 10 minutes

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Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand (version 2)

Biography & Autobiography

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Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand (version 2)

This is the fourth volume of Alexandre Dumas' studies of celebrated crimes and their perpetrators. This volume is concerned with the story of Karl Ludwig Sand, who stabbed August von Kotzebue to death in 1819. August...

John Van Stan 1 hour 59 minutes

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Dramatic Readings

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Alexandre Dumas - Catherine Howard (Dramatic Reading)

Subtitled «The Throne, The Tomb, and The Scaffold — An Historical Play in 3 Acts From the Celebrated Play of that Name by Alexandre Dumas» — How can you resist a play about English history — the doomed fifth wife of...

1 hour 59 minutes

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Plays

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Alexandre Dumas, fils - Princess of Bagdad

Is it really a woman of your superiority who speaks of the proprieties of society? Are not women like you above all that? Was I to come delicately and hypocritically to offer your husband the sum he stood in need of?...

1 hour 59 minutes

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Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 3: Nisida (version 2)

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Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 3: Nisida (version 2)

Dumas, with the assistance of several friends, compiled Celebrated Crimes, an eight-volume collection of essays on famous criminals and crimes from European history.. This volume tells the story of the infamous prison...

Nadja Fernandes and 4 more 1 hour 48 minutes

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Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 7: Part 2: Countess de Saint-Geran

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Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 7: Part 2: Countess de Saint-Geran

This story details the crimes and trial surrounding the unexpected pregnancy and subsequent childbirth of the Countess de Saint-Geran in 1640s France. Familial jealousies harbored by her sister-in-law, the Marchioness...

John Van Stan 1 hour 47 minutes

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Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 3: Martin Guerre

Historical Fiction

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Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 3: Martin Guerre

Martin Guerre was a French peasant that, during a long absence, was famously impersonated in the 16th century. Although the real Martin Guerre is suspected of no serious crimes, his imposter, Arnaud du Tilh, engaged...

John Van Stan 1 hour 46 minutes

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Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 2: The Man in the Iron Mask

Biography & Autobiography

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Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 2: The Man in the Iron Mask

In the late 1600s a man was doubly-imprisoned: his body in an iron cell and his face in an iron mask. Who the “man in the iron mask” was, why he was imprisoned, and how he was treated during imprisonment, remains a...

John Van Stan 1 hour 42 minutes

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Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 7: Part 3: Murat

War & Military

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Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 7: Part 3: Murat

Amidst the political winds from Napoleon’s downfall, this tale turns our attention to the flight of a former French marshal and King of Naples, Joachim Murat. Murat, unhappy with the deal he made to obtain pardon from...

John Van Stan 1 hour 33 minutes

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