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16 - Book 1, Chapters 41 - 42

In Amadis of Gaul

Read by Ted Garvin

Vasco de Lobeira and Vasco De Lobeira

Amadis of Gaul (Amadís de Gaula, in Spanish) was not the first, but certainly one of the best known knight-errantry tales of the 16th…

Life in the Wakalah, part 2

In Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-madinah and Meccah

Read by Ted Garvin

Richard Francis Burton

Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 – 1890) was an English explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, linguist, poet, hyp…

06 - Chapter 3, Part 2

In Metamorphosis or The Golden Ass

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Lucius Apuleius

The Metamorphosis, also known as The Golden Ass, is one of the very few novels of the Ancient World that survived to our days; one of the tw…

28 - Smuggling

In The Vicomte De Bragelonne

Read by Ted Garvin

Alexandre Dumas

After The Three Muskateers and Twenty Years After the adventurous story of Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan continues!The Vicomte of Br…

The Lay of Graelent

In French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France

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Marie de France. [Translated by Eugene Mason] and Marie De France

The tales included in this little book of translations are derived mainly from the "Lays" of Marie de France. I do not profess the…

04 - Ch XXXIX: The Journey Is Continued

In Waverley, Volume 2

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Sir Walter Scott

Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart (or…