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    Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand
    Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand
    Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand
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    Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand

    Written by Alexandre Dumas

    Narrated by Multiple - LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook

    This is the fourth volume of Alexandre Dumas' studies of celebrated crimes and their perpetrators. This volume is concerned with the story of Karl Ludwig Sand, who stabbed August von Kotzebue to death in 1819. August von Kotzebue had been a prominent dramatist, a student of Musäus, whose royalist and conservative writings ultimately led to his assassination by a member of a revolutionary liberal Burschenschaft. - Summary by Carolin
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand
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    Alexandre Dumas

    Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) was one of the literary lights of France during the Romantic Revolution, his complete works eventually filling over three hundred volumes. George Bernard Shaw described him as "one of the best storytellers…that ever lived." The Man in the Iron Mask and The Three Musketeers are available from Brilliance Audio.

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