The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Vol. 2: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Vol. 2, credited to Marguerite of Navarre, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Vol. 2 by Marguerite of Navarre. (Translated by George Saintsbury.) Read in English by Lynne Thompson; Anna Simon; Mary J; Martin Geeson THE HEPTAMERON, first published posthumously in 1558, is divided into seven complete days containing 10 stories each, and an eighth day containing only 2 stories. The stories, many of which deal with love and infidelity, resulted in "accusations of looseness" by critics of the day. The author, Margaret of Navarre (also known as Margaret of Angoulême) became an influential woman in the intellectual and cultural circles of the French Renaissance. From an 1892 essay by the translator George Saintsbury: "In so large a number of stories with so great a variety of subjects, it naturally cannot but be the case that there is a considerable diversity of tone. But that peculiarity at which we have glanced more than once, the combination of voluptuous passion with passionate regret and a mystical devotion, is seldom absent for long together...The question, What is the special virtue of the Heptameron? I have myself little hesitation in answering. There is no book, in prose and of so early a date, which shows to me the characteristic of the time as it influenced the two great literary nations of Europe so distinctly as this book of Margaret of Angoulême… - Summary adapted from Wikipedia and excerpted from the text by lubee930)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Vol. 2
• Author credits: Marguerite of Navarre
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 21
• Listed recording duration: 4:07:49

Catalogue topics

• adultery
• seduction
• Reformation
• navarre
• marguerite of angouleme

Track guide

1. 01 - First Day, Tale VIII — 15:13
2. 02 - First Day, Tale IX — 15:19
3. 03 - First Day, Tale X, Part 1 — 13:46
4. 04 - First Day, Tale X, Part 2 — 16:08
5. 05 - First Day, Tale X, Part 3 — 15:44
6. 06 - First Day, Tale X, Part 4 — 15:07
7. 07 - Second Day, Prologue and Tale XI (A) — 6:38
8. 08 - Second Day, Tale XI (B) — 7:57
9. 09 - Second Day, Tale XII — 15:17
10. 10 - Second Day, Tale XIII — 23:21
11. 11 - Second Day, Tale XIV — 18:21
12. 12 - Second Day, Tale XV, Part 1 — 11:43
13. 13 - Second Day, Tale XV, Part 2 — 14:39
14. 14 - Second Day, Tale XVI — 13:41
15. 15 - Second Day, Tale XVII — 7:18
16. 16 - Second Day, Tale XVIII — 10:39
17. 17 - Appendix A, Tale VIII, Page 1 — 3:20
18. 18 - Appendix B, Tale XI (B), Page 95 — 5:07
19. 19 - Appendix C, Tale XII, Page 101 — 6:24
20. 20 - Appendix D, Tale XVI, Page 183 — 4:43
21. 21 - Appendix E, Tale XVII, Page 195 — 7:23

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