The Seats of The Mighty

Written by Gilbert Parker

Narrated by LibriVox Community

For the time of his story Mr. Parker has chosen the most absorbing period of the romantic eighteenth-century history of Quebec. The curtain rises soon after General Braddock's defeat in Virginia, and the hero, a prisoner in Quebec, curiously entangled in the intrigues of La Pompadour, becomes a part of a strange history, full of adventure and the stress of peril, which culminates only after Wolfe's victory over Montcalm. The material offered by the life and history of old Quebec has never been utilized for the purposes of fiction with the command of plot and incident, the mastery of local color, and the splendid realization of dramatic situations shown in this distinguished and moving romance. The illustrations preserve the atmosphere of the text, for they present the famous buildings, gates, and battle grounds as they appeared at the time of the hero's imprisonment in Quebec. (Summary by D. Appleton and Company, 1896)

Cast:

Narrator, Captain Lancy, Sir John Godric, Scarat, Mr. Stevens, Officer Kingdon, Sailor, Midshipman: Michael Reuss
Captain Robert Moray: Robert Hoffman
Madamoiselle Alixe Duvarney: Amanda Friday
Monsieur Doltaire: NoelBadrian
Gabord: Algy Pug
General Wolfe, The Surgeon, Bishop: Martin Geeson
Intendant Francois Bigot, Chevalier de la Darante, The Voice: Ron Altman
Intendant Francois Bigot, Servant, Commandant Ramesay, The Intendant's Valet, Bamboir, Sentinal, General Murray: ToddHW
Governor Marquis de Vaudreuil, John Mitchell, Grandfather: AllenJohns
Voban: DublinGothic
Seigneur Duvarney: Chuck Williamson
Madame Duvarney, Mathilde, Singers, Mother Superior: MJ Franck
Marquis de Montcalm: Ernst Pattynama
Babette: CaprishaPage
Mr. Wainfleet, Women Singers, Farmer's Son: TriciaG
Madame Cournal, Madame Jamond: April Gonzales
Madame Cournal: Tisha Bordon
Juste Duvarney, Sailor Jack, Officer: Tiffany Halla Colonna
Jeanie: Availle
Prophet Man, Officer Legrand: csjesi1
Guard, Jean Labrouk, Sentinal at Gate 1, Sentinal at Gate 2, Sentinal at Chateau St. Louis, Soldier: Kristingj

• Language: English
• Publisher: LibriVox
• Release date: Aug 25, 2014

Gilbert Parker

Gilbert Parker (1862–1932), also credited as Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet, was a Canadian novelist and British politician. His initial career was in education, working in various schools as a teacher and lecturer. He then traveled abroad to Australia where he became an editor at the Sydney Morning Herald. He expanded his writing to include long-form works such as romance fiction. Some of his most notable titles include Pierre and his People (1892), The Seats of the Mighty and The Battle of the Strong.