Seats of The Mighty
Chapter 1 of 31 Book Intro, Cast Intro, Prelude Intro, Prelude
- Running time
- 13 h 39 min
- Language
- English
- Readers
- Algy Pug, AllenJohns, Amanda Friday, April Gonzales, Availle and 16 others
Chapters
About this recording
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, Captain Lancy, Sir John Godric, Scarat, Mr. Stevens, Officer Kingdon, Sailor, Midshipman: Michael Reuss
Captain Robert Moray: Robert Hoffman
Madamoiselle Alixe Duvarney: Amanda Friday
Monsieur Doltaire: NoelBadrian
Gabord: Algy Pug
General Wolfe, The…