Celebrated Crimes, Karl-Ludwig Sand

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Read by John Van Stan

English · 1h 59m · Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Historical Fiction

4.6 (12 reviews)

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

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Brilliant


(5 stars)

John Van Stan is the perfect narrator for these tales , he takes you into the story from the very first lines and adapts wonderfully to different characters. By far my favourite narrator on LibriVox

AMAZING PIECE OF HISTORY


(5 stars)

Anyone who wants to die so badly needs to.