Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 7: Part 1: Ali Pacha

About this film

LibriVox recording of Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 7: Part 1: Ali Pacha by Alexandre Dumas. (Translated by George Burnham Ives.) Read in English by John Van Stan Ali Tepeleni, Pacha of Janina, rose to power during the early 1800s in one of the Ottoman Empire’s most unruly territories (Albania). His ferocious imposition of will was limitless, earning him the sobriquet of “the Lion of Janina.” As the mauling and murder of innocents sustains the lion, so did it sustain Ali Pacha’s rule. Thus, the range of celebrated crimes that Dumas describes in this essay are as vast as Ali Pacha’s ambition – an ambition rooted in his mother’s callous advice that “success justified everything, and everything is permissible to him who has the power to do it.” - Summary by jvanstan For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . M4B Audiobook (123MB)

Directors & creators

Alexandre Dumas

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks; ottoman empire; ali tepeleni; pacha of janina; lion of janina; yanina; ali pasha of ioannina; pashalik of yanina; sultan mahmud ii

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