Celebrated Crimes

10 hrs. 44 min.

Language Russian

Author Alexandre Dumas

Narrator Natalya Karpunina

Description

In the vast literary legacy of Alexandre Dumas, “A History of Famous Crimes” occupies a special place—however, this book is far less known to Russian readers than his celebrated novels “The Three Musketeers,” “The Queen of Margot,” and others.

This volume includes four novellas from Dumas’s “A History of Famous Crimes”: “The Family of the Chenchi,” “The Marquise de Brinvilliers,” “Murat,” and “Deryu.” Investigating crime and punishment, the writer freely moves through time and space. The reader finds themselves in Renaissance Italy, then in early nineteenth-century France. People’s fates intertwine with the fates of entire peoples. Before us come to life sinister events, extraordinary passions, and furious desires.