Hörbuch: Reign of Queen Anne, Volume I
- Download Ch. 1: The Woman Born to be a Queen audio
- Download Ch. 2: What the Queen Came to--at Home audio
- Download Ch. 3: What the Queen Came to--Abroad audio
- Download Ch. 4: Those Around Queen Anne audio
- Download Ch. 5: Dissent and Defoe audio
- Download Ch. 6: On the Rough Edge of Battle audio
- Download Ch. 7: 'The Campaign'--Blenheim audio
- Download Ch. 8: Peterborough in Spain audio
- Download Ch. 9: Events and Parties at Home audio
- Download Ch. 10: The Union with Scotland audio
- Download Ch. 11: 'The Trivial Round--The Common Task' audio
- Download Ch. 12: The London of Queen Anne audio
- Download Ch. 13: Jonathan Swift audio
- Download Ch. 14: Ramillies and Almanza audio
- Download Ch. 15: The First Parliament of the Union audio
- Download Ch. 16: Sacheverell audio
- Download Ch. 17: 'Harley, the Nation's Great Support' audio
- Download Ch. 18: The Triumph of the Tories audio
- Download Ch. 19: What the War was Coming to audio
- Download Ch. 20: Jonathan Swift's Views audio
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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)
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