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The Return of Martin Guerre Audiobook, by Natalie Zemon Davis Play Audiobook Sample

The Return of Martin Guerre Audiobook

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Read By: Sarah Mollo-Christensen Publisher: Tantor Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 2.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 1.75 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: April 2018 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781541481862

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

15

Longest Chapter Length:

21:42 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

04:48 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

14:22 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. The astonishing case captured the imagination of the Continent.

Natalie Zemon Davis reconstructs the lives of ordinary people, in a sparkling way that reveals the hidden attachments and sensibilities of nonliterate sixteenth-century villagers. We learn what happens when common people get involved in the workings of the criminal courts in the ancien régime, and how judges struggle to decide who a man was in the days before fingerprints and photographs. We sense the secret affinity between the eloquent men of law and the honey-tongued village impostor, a rare identification across class lines.

Deftly written to please both the general public and specialists, The Return of Martin Guerre will interest those who want to know more about ordinary families and especially women of the past, and about the creation of literary legends. It is a remarkable psychological narrative about where self-fashioning stops and lying begins.

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About Natalie Zemon Davis

Natalie Zemon Davis is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Emerita, Princeton University.

About Sarah Mollo-Christensen

Sarah Mollo-Christensen is a voice talent and an audiobook narrator. A stage and voice actor, she received her BA from Dartmouth College and graduated from the Atlantic Theater Company’s Acting Conservatory in New York City. As an actress, she has appeared on prestigious regional stages, including the Folger Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC.