The Seats of the Mighty: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Seats of the Mighty, credited to Gilbert Parker, 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 The Seats of the Mighty, by Gilbert Parker. For the time of his story Mr. Parker has chosen the most absorbing period of the romantic eighteenth-century history of Quebec. The curtain rises soon after General Braddock's defeat in Virginia, and the hero, a prisoner in Quebec, curiously entangled in the intrigues of La Pompadour, becomes a part of a strange history, full of adventure and the stress of peril, which culminates only after Wolfe's victory over Montcalm. The material offered by the life and history of old Quebec has never been utilized for the purposes of fiction with the command of plot and incident, the mastery of local color, and the splendid realization of dramatic situations shown in this distinguished and moving romance. The illustrations preserve the atmosphere of the text, for they present the famous buildings, gates, and battle grounds as they appeared at the time of the hero's imprisonment in Quebec. (Summary by D. Appleton and Company, 1896) Cast: Narrator........................................Michael Reuss Captain Robert Moray...................Robert Hoffman Madamoiselle Alixe Duvarney........Amanda Friday Monsieur Doltaire..........................NoelBadrian Gabord..........................................Algy Pug General Wolfe...............................Martin Geeson Intendant Francois Bigot...............Ron Altman, ToddHW Governor Marquis de Vaudreuil.....AllenJohns Voban...........................................DublinGothic Chevalier de la Darante................Ron Altman Seigneur Duvarney.......................Chuck Williamson Madame Duvarney.........................MJ Franck Marquis de Montcalm.....................Ernst Pattynama Mathilde.........................................MJ Franck Babette.........................................CaprishaPage Mr. Wainfleet.................................TriciaG Captain Lancy................................Michael Reuss Madame Cournal.........................April Gonzales, Tisha Bordon Singers...........................................MJ Franck Women Singers..............................TriciaG Juste Duvarney..............................Tiffany Halla Colonna Jeanie............................................Availle John Mitchell..................................AllenJohns Prophet Man..................................csjesi1 Sir John Godric...............................Michael Reuss The Voice.......................................Ron Altman Servant..........................................ToddHW Scarat.............................................Michael Reuss Farmer's Son..................................TriciaG Commandant Ramesay..................ToddHW The Surgeon..................................Martin Geeson Madame Jamond............................April Gonzales The Intendant's Valet....................ToddHW Officer Legrand..............................csjesi1 Guard.............................................Kristingj Bamboir..........................................ToddHW Mr. Stevens....................................Michael Reuss Officer Kingdon...............................Michael Reuss Sentinal..........................................ToddHW Jean—Labrouk................................Kristingj Sentinal at the gate 1.....................Kristingj Sentinal at the gate 2.....................Kristingj Sentinal at Chateau St. Louis.........Kristingj Grandfather....................................AllenJohns Bishop.............................................Martin Geeson Mother Superior..............................MJ Franck Soldier.............................................Kristingj General Murray...............................ToddHW Sailor..............................................Michael Reuss Midshipman.....................................Michael Reuss Sailor Jack.......................................Tiffany Halla Colonna Officer.............................................Tiffany Halla Colonna Audio Edited By: ToddHW

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Seats of the Mighty
• Author credits: Gilbert Parker
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 13:39:12

Catalogue topics

• love
• honor
• virtue
• temptation
• intrigue
• dilemma
• surprise
• war

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 00 - Book intro, Character intros, Prelude — 7:07
2. 01 - Chapter 1 — 29:43
3. 02 - Chapter 2 — 36:11
4. 03 - Chapter 3 — 25:53
5. 04 - Chapter 4 — 29:10
6. 05 - Chapter 5 — 7:43
7. 06 - Chapter 6 — 38:14
8. 07 - Chapter 7 — 17:25
9. 08 - Chapter 8 — 7:03
10. 09 - Chapter 9 — 26:38
11. 10 - Chapter 10 — 38:03
12. 11 - Chapter 11 — 23:56
13. 12 - Chapter 12 — 37:25
14. 13 - Chapter 13 — 31:04
15. 14 - Chapter 14 — 44:50
16. 15 - Chapter 15 — 24:13
17. 16 - Chapter 16 — 24:33
18. 17 - Chapter 17 — 20:49
19. 18 - Chapter 18 — 11:37
20. 19 - Chapter 19 — 36:59
21. 20 - Chapter 20 — 36:56
22. 21 - Chapter 21 — 16:34
23. 22 - Chapter 22 — 33:34
24. 23 - Chapter 23 — 37:40

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