Gail Timmerman Vaughan

3 books read for LibriVox

filter sort genre era audiobooks

The Black Tulip Alexandre Dumas, translated by P. F. Collier and Son
You get Dumas in a compact, good-humored mood, following Cornelius van Baerle’s stubborn devotion to growing a truly black tulip while Rosa Gryphus brings warmth and practical sense to his troubles. It’s romantic, slightly absurd, and much less demanding than his sprawling adventures.
The Vicomte de Bragelonne Alexandre Dumas, translated by George Routledge and Co.
You settle in for a long, melancholy farewell to Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and d’Artagnan, now older and pulled apart by politics, loyalty, and ambition. It moves more slowly than the earlier musketeer novels, but its sense of friendship aging into legend has real weight.
With the Empress Dowager of China Katharine A. Carl non-fiction
You get an unusually close, observant look at Empress Dowager Cixi through Katharine Carl’s experience painting her portrait, with court rituals, palace rooms, and small human details doing the work. It’s gently paced and shaped by its outsider’s early-20th-century assumptions, but worth your time if you enjoy firsthand travel writing with a real person emerging behind imperial ceremony.

3 books read for LibriVox

filter sort genre era audiobooks

The Black Tulip Alexandre Dumas, translated by P. F. Collier and Son
You get Dumas in a compact, good-humored mood, following Cornelius van Baerle’s stubborn devotion to growing a truly black tulip while Rosa Gryphus brings warmth and practical sense to his troubles. It’s romantic, slightly absurd, and much less demanding than his sprawling adventures.
The Vicomte de Bragelonne Alexandre Dumas, translated by George Routledge and Co.
You settle in for a long, melancholy farewell to Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and d’Artagnan, now older and pulled apart by politics, loyalty, and ambition. It moves more slowly than the earlier musketeer novels, but its sense of friendship aging into legend has real weight.
With the Empress Dowager of China Katharine A. Carl non-fiction
You get an unusually close, observant look at Empress Dowager Cixi through Katharine Carl’s experience painting her portrait, with court rituals, palace rooms, and small human details doing the work. It’s gently paced and shaped by its outsider’s early-20th-century assumptions, but worth your time if you enjoy firsthand travel writing with a real person emerging behind imperial ceremony.