Length16h 21m
About this audiobook
"The Dynasts" is an English-language drama in verse by Thomas Hardy. Hardy himself described this work as "an epic-drama of the war with Napoleon, in three parts, nineteen acts and one hundred and thirty scenes". Not counting the Forescene and the Afterscene, the exact total number of scenes is 131. The three parts were published in 1904, 1906 and 1908. Because of the ambition and scale of the work, Hardy acknowledged that The Dynasts was not a work that could be conventionally staged in the theatre, and described the work as "the longest English drama in existence". Scholars have noted that Hardy remembered war stories of the veterans of the Napoleonic wars in his youth, and used them as partial inspiration for writing The Dynasts many years later in his own old age. In addition, Hardy was a distant relative of Captain Thomas Hardy, who had served with Admiral Horatio Nelson at Trafalgar. Hardy consulted a number of histories and also visited Waterloo, Belgium, as part of his research. George Orwell wrote that Hardy had "set free his genius" by writing this drama and thought its main appeal was "in the grandiose and rather evil vision of armies marching and counter-marching through the mists, and men dying by hundreds of thousands in the Russian snows, and all for absolutely nothing." (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length16 hrs 21 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 18, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
14ACT THIRD
2DETAILED CONTENTS.
15ACT FOURTH
3PART FIRST
16ACT FIFTH
4FORE SCENE
17ACT SIXTH
5ACT FIRST
18PART THIRD
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6ACT SECOND
19ACT FIRST
7ACT THIRD
20ACT SECOND
8ACT FOURTH
21ACT THIRD
9ACT FIFTH
22ACT FOURTH
10ACT SIXTH
23ACT FIFTH
11PART SECOND
24ACT SIXTH
12ACT FIRST
25ACT SEVENTH
13ACT SECOND
26AFTER SCENE
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