The Reign of Queen Anne, Volume I: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Reign of Queen Anne, Volume I, credited to Justin McCarthy, 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 Reign of Queen Anne, Volume I by Justin McCarthy. Read in English by Pamela Nagami Anne Stuart (1665-1714), Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, succeeded William III to the throne in 1702. She was the daughter of the deposed Catholic king, James II, but was of the Anglican faith. Liberal, Irish member of Parliament, Justin McCarthy, writing in 1902, creates in sparkling, uncluttered prose a panoramic canvas of Anne and her times. In the first of the two volumes, the brilliant commander, the Duke of Marlborough, defeats the French and Bavarians at the Battle of Blenheim, while the flagship of the admiral of the fleet, Sir Cloudesley Shovell, strikes the rocks near the Isles of Scilly and is lost with all eight hundred hands. We are at street level in rowdy London with its aristocratic bully boys, the Mohocks, its coffee houses, and its theaters. We meet the great Tories, Harley and Bolingbroke, and encounter the satiric spirit who haunts it all, Jonathan Swift. (Pamela Nagami)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Reign of Queen Anne, Volume I
• Author credits: Justin McCarthy
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 13:42:02

Catalogue topics

• Jonathan Swift
• Louis XIV
• queen anne
• political science
• duke of marlborough
• battle of blenheim
• war of spanish succession
• duke of berwick

Track guide

1. 01 - Ch. 1: The Woman Born to be a Queen — 25:30
2. 02 - Ch. 2: What the Queen Came to--at Home — 39:30
3. 03 - Ch. 3: What the Queen Came to--Abroad — 37:26
4. 04 - Ch. 4: Those Around Queen Anne — 36:56
5. 05 - Ch. 5: Dissent and Defoe — 31:20
6. 06 - Ch. 6: On the Rough Edge of Battle — 36:04
7. 07 - Ch. 7: 'The Campaign'--Blenheim — 51:06
8. 08 - Ch. 8: Peterborough in Spain — 34:52
9. 09 - Ch. 9: Events and Parties at Home — 41:40
10. 10 - Ch. 10: The Union with Scotland — 41:46
11. 11 - Ch. 11: 'The Trivial Round--The Common Task' — 45:32
12. 12 - Ch. 12: The London of Queen Anne — 47:58
13. 13 - Ch. 13: Jonathan Swift — 52:33
14. 14 - Ch. 14: Ramillies and Almanza — 36:57
15. 15 - Ch. 15: The First Parliament of the Union — 42:03
16. 16 - Ch. 16: Sacheverell — 50:04
17. 17 - Ch. 17: 'Harley, the Nation's Great Support' — 37:33
18. 18 - Ch. 18: The Triumph of the Tories — 37:09
19. 19 - Ch. 19: What the War was Coming to — 51:24
20. 20 - Ch. 20: Jonathan Swift's Views — 44:39

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