Vaninka: Celebrated Crimes, Book 17 Audiobook by Alexandre Dumas

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 240920 Title: Vaninka: Celebrated Crimes, Book 17 Author: Alexandre Dumas Narrator: Robert Bethune Format: Unabridged Length: 02:16:17 Language: English Release date: 07-22-15 Publisher: Findaway Voices Genres: Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics Summary: To paraphrase the note from the translator, The Celebrated Crimes of Alexandre Dumas père was not written for children. The novelist has spared no languagehas minced no wordsto describe violent scenes of violent times. In this, the seventeenth of the series, Dumas, in this case more a novelist rather 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. This story is historical romance, not history. It does show us something of the life of Russia at the time, and takes a side trip through part of the Napoleonic wars, but the focus is firmly on the price a beautiful young girl pays for her arrogant willingness to play fpr keeps with human hearts. Dumas may have collaborated on this, as he frequently did in his works, with other writers. Nevertheless, it is clearly Dumas who has the final say on this work, as with all the other works in this series. Enjoy! Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com