Charles II: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Charles II, credited to Osmund Airy, 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 II by Osmund Airy. Read in English by Pamela Nagami This engaging book is an inestimable resource for any student of the merry monarch, Charles II. "Odd's fish," he said "I am an ugly fellow!" Yet, as Airy writes, "his power of imagination, his intuitive perception of character, his faculty of statecraft, enabled him to gauge the strength or weakness of an opponent or the frailty of an adherent, and to slip by difficulties which it was inconvenient to meet." But alas, Charles's moral languor led to the dominance of French gold in English affairs, and to parliamentary factions and courtly intrigues, which culminated in the judicial murders of the Popish Plot. (Summary by Pamela Nagami, M.D.)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Charles II
• Author credits: Osmund Airy
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 37
• Listed recording duration: 11:47:16

Catalogue topics

• religion
• Charles II
• Louis XIV
• restoration
• political science
• loed clarendon
• popish plot
• titus oates

Opening tracks: first 24 of 37

1. 01 - Ch. 1: Prince of Wales, Pt. 1 — 21:19
2. 02 - Ch. 1: Prince of Wales, Pt. 2 — 21:03
3. 03 - Ch. 1: Prince of Wales, Pt. 3 — 17:59
4. 04 - Ch. 1: Prince of Wales, Pt. 4 — 19:15
5. 05 - Ch. 1: Prince of Wales, Pt. 5 — 18:54
6. 06 - Ch. 1: Prince of Wales, Pt. 6 — 17:31
7. 07 - Ch. 1: Prince of Wales, Pt. 7 — 27:57
8. 08 - Ch. 2: Scotland, Exile, and Restoration, Pt. 1 — 14:06
9. 09 - Ch. 2: Scotland, Exile, and Restoration, Pt. 2 — 17:40
10. 10 - Ch. 2: Scotland, Exile, and Restoration, Pt. 3 — 16:25
11. 11 - Ch. 2: Scotland, Exile, and Restoration, Pt. 4 — 17:19
12. 12 - Ch. 2: Scotland, Exile, and Restoration, Pt. 5 — 17:34
13. 13 - Ch. 2: Scotland, Exile, and Restoration, Pt. 6 — 17:13
14. 14 - Ch. 2: Scotland, Exile, and Restoration, Pt. 7 — 24:29
15. 15 - Ch. 3: Charles and Clarendon, Pt. 1 — 18:28
16. 16 - Ch. 3: Charles and Clarendon, Pt. 2 — 19:00
17. 17 - Ch. 3: Charles and Clarendon, Pt. 3 — 19:30
18. 18 - Ch. 3: Charles and Clarendon, Pt. 4 — 21:10
19. 19 - Ch. 3: Charles and Clarendon, Pt. 5 — 25:50
20. 20 - Ch. 3: Charles and Clarendon, Pt. 6 — 20:46
21. 21 - Ch. 3: Charles and Clarendon, Pt. 7 — 22:33
22. 22 - Ch. 4: Charles, Louis, and Parliament, Pt. 1 — 16:06
23. 23 - Ch. 4: Charles, Louis, and Parliament, Pt. 2 — 19:10
24. 24 - Ch. 4: Charles, Louis, and Parliament, Pt. 3 — 14:54

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