The Age of Anne: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Age of Anne, credited to Edward Ellis Morris, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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

LibriVox recording of The Age of Anne by Edward Ellis Morris. Read by Pamela Nagami This short survey of the age of Queen Anne begins with the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) and the career of the Duke of Marlborough, leader of the allied armies against Louis XIV. Scotland joins England to form the United Kingdom. Peter the Great wrests control of the Gulf of Finland from Charles XII of Sweden and builds St. Petersburg. Despite the Jacobite threat, the Whigs secure the Protestant Succession and George I ascends the throne. Pope writes a mock epic in couplets, Addison's "Spectator" enlivens coffee houses and tea tables, and Defoe creates the immortal "Robinson Crusoe." (Pamela Nagami, M.D.)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Age of Anne
• Author credits: Edward Ellis Morris
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 7:44:17

Catalogue topics

• scotland
• Louis XIV
• Peter the Great
• godolphin
• queen anne
• jacobites
• robert walpole
• duke of marlborough

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 01 - Ch. 1: The Spanish Succession — 21:55
2. 02 - Ch. 2: Lewis XIV 1714 — 23:49
3. 03 - Ch. 3: The New Dramatis Personae — 16:16
4. 04 - Ch. 4: ‘The Grand Alliance’ — 17:05
5. 05 - Ch. 5: Opening of the War — 15:55
6. 06 - Ch. 6: Rising in the Cevennes — 15:56
7. 07 - Ch. 7: Blenheim — 16:19
8. 08 - Ch. 8: Lord Peterborough — 16:59
9. 09 - Ch. 9: The Year of Victory—1706 — 23:56
10. 10 - Ch. 10: The Year of Disaster—1707 — 12:01
11. 11 - Ch. 11: Later Fighting in the Low Countries — 26:46
12. 12 - Ch. 12: Later Campaigns in Spain — 20:11
13. 13 - Ch. 13: The Fortunes of Parties — 22:44
14. 14 - Ch. 14: Fag-end of the War — 11:22
15. 15 - Ch. 15: Peace of Utrecht — 12:02
16. 16 - Ch. 16: The Union with Scotland — 20:44
17. 17 - Ch. 17: Peter the Great and Charles XII, Pt. 1 — 19:22
18. 18 - Ch. 17: Peter the Great and Charles XII, Pt. 2 — 22:21
19. 19 - Ch. 18: The Protestant Succession — 22:55
20. 20 - Ch. 19: End of Lewis XIV — 8:32
21. 21 - Ch. 20: The Fragments that Remain — 6:24
22. 22 - Ch. 21: Economic and Social, Pt. 1 — 23:52
23. 23 - Ch. 21: Economic and Social, Pt. 2 — 22:49
24. 24 - Ch. 22: Literature, Pt. 1 — 19:02

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