Back in Time

Posted on July 1, 2024 by | Posted in about LibriVox, Blog, Books, For Volunteers, Monthly Picks, News | Comments: Comments Off on Back in Time

Summer time means vacation time! But how about instead of going to a different place, you could go to a different time? Take a trip through history with 10 gems from our catalog.

Henry Kenton is traveling from Kentucky to South Carolina on the eve of the American civil war. He is anxious to complete a secret mission in Joseph A. Altsheler’s novel The Guns of Bull Run, the first book in a series.

Catherine Radziwill takes us back to Rasputin and the Russian Revolution. She discusses the controversial preacher’s influence on the Tsar’s family just before the monarchy collapsed in 1917.

124 years earlier, the French Revolution disposed of Marie Antoinette and her Son, Louis Charles. Louise Mühlbach tells the story of the boy’s life after his parents were killed in 1793.

The French Revolution ended in the Reign of Terror, which is the backdrop to The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel over his nemesis Chauvelin. This is our dramatic reading of Emma Orczy’s novel.

Not long before in England, the Jacobite rising had failed. Ewen Cameron fled to the Scottish Highland only to be dragged back into the plot, endangering friends and family. Will there be a happy ending in D. K. Broster’s novel The Gleam in the North?

Next, let’s follow Sigrid Undset to rural Norway where Kristin Lavransdatter wants to marry Erlend. Her family disapproves of the match, but will she be allowed to wear The Bridal Wreath in the end?

All is fair in love and war… José Milla y Vidaure tells the story of two rival families who vie for power and how the Captaincy General of Guatemala ceased to exist because of a secret group known as Los Nazarenos.

For a long time, Christians had to worship in secret underground meetings. James Orr summarizes The History and Literature of the Early Church from the Apostolic Age to the persecutions in the Roman Empire.

When Christians had taken firm hold over Europe, they in turn persecuted other religions. Over 200 years, 9 Crusades were fought to recover the Holy Land from Islamic rule. Learn about their causes and aftermath in the book by George W. Cox.

Not that the muslims – moors as they were called then – were peaceful either. Pelayo or Cavern of Covadonga retells King Pelayo’s 722 battle against the moorish invasion of Asturia in Northern Spain. This epic poem was written by Anna C. M. Ritchie.

Enjoy – and have a good trip!

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