John Van Stan
44 books
True Crime
481
Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 1: The Borgias and the Cenci (version 2)
Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes' was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language--has minced no words--to describe the violent scenes of a violent time. In some instances facts appear distorted out...
8 hours 21 minutes
War & Military
440
Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 3: Mary Stuart (version 2)
The contents of these volumes of 'Celebrated Crimes', as well as the motives which led to their inception, are unique. They are a series of stories based upon historical records, from the pen of Alexandre Dumas, pere,...
6 hours 24 minutes
True Crime
442
Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 5: Part 1: Desrues
This story chronicles the crimes of Antoine-Francois Desrues (also called «Derues») from his childhood to his execution. Desrues constructed the veneer of a virtuous reputation that hid his ever-increasing deviancy...
4 hours 24 minutes
Religion
466
George Hodges - Saints and Heroes to the End of the Middle Ages
Though these stories of the lives of twenty saints and heroes of the faith, we have an introduction to the history of the church from 3rd century A.D. to the Reformation. These stories chronicle their lives and...
4 hours 16 minutes
