Charles I: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Charles I, credited to Jacob Abbott, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Charles I, by Jacob Abbott. There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their history, that he may know, in brief, what it was in their characters or their doings which has given them so widely-extended a fame. Consequently, great historical names alone are selected; and it has been the writer's aim to present the prominent and leading traits in their characters, and all the important events in their lives, in a bold and free manner, and yet in the plain and simple language which is so obviously required in works which aim at permanent and practical usefulness. This volume is dedicated to Charles I. (Summary from the preface of the book)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Charles I
• Author credits: Jacob Abbott
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 5:16:15

Catalogue topics

• Jacob Abbot
• history
• Charles I: History of England
• Biography

Track guide

1. 01 - His Childhood and Youth — 23:14
2. 02 - The Expedition to Spain — 25:35
3. 03 - Accession to the Throne — 27:53
4. 04 - Buckingham — 36:38
5. 05 - The King and His Prerogative — 29:36
6. 06 - Archbishop Laud — 32:39
7. 07 - The Earl of Strafford — 25:36
8. 08 - Downfall of Strafford and Laud — 28:36
9. 09 - Civil War — 29:45
10. 10 - The Captivity — 25:47
11. 11 - Trial and Death — 30:59

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