Read by Nathan Englander. “The Story of My Dovecot” describes the effect of the notorious pogrom of October 20, 1905, on the Babel family and particularly on the author himself as a boy of eleven. It is one of Isaac Babel’s most autobiographical stories. Nevertheless, the author changes a number of crucial details, including even his age, to yield greater drama. The story is thus...
Read by George Saunders. — 80 kbps. — Duration 00:23:13. George Saunders reads Isaac Babel's short story "You Must Know Everything" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. This story is almost like looking at fine art. It's not just about the story itself, but the whole scene that the author draws is so well done. When I finished reading the story,...
Read by George Guidall. — Recorded Books, 1991. Unabridged. Translated from the Russian by Diana Burgin & Katherine Tiernan O'Connor. The professor and the poet who've come to Patriarch's Ponds for a stroll on a hot and stagnant Moscow afternoon are dismayed to encounter a quite extraordinary stranger, surely a deranged foreigner. As this quixotic character recalls a...
Read by George Guidall. — Recorded Books, 1991. Unabridged. Translated from the Russian by Diana Burgin & Katherine Tiernan O'Connor. The professor and the poet who've come to Patriarch's Ponds for a stroll on a hot and stagnant Moscow afternoon are dismayed to encounter a quite extraordinary stranger, surely a deranged foreigner. As this quixotic character recalls a...
Read by George Guidall. — Recorded Books, 1991. Unabridged. Translated from the Russian by Diana Burgin & Katherine Tiernan O'Connor. The professor and the poet who've come to Patriarch's Ponds for a stroll on a hot and stagnant Moscow afternoon are dismayed to encounter a quite extraordinary stranger, surely a deranged foreigner. As this quixotic character recalls a...
Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. — Read by Stephen Fry. — HarperCollins Audio Books, 2008. — 32 kbps CBR, 22.050 Hz, mono. — Duration 01:48:00. — ISBN: 978-0-00-731637-3. Unabridged on 2CDs. Stephen Fry Presents a Selection of Anton Chekhov's Short Stories Immerse yourself in a world where the wonderful Stephen Fry reads some of the more memorable short stories...
Read by Alex Jennings. Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St. Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator,...
27-year-old Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin returns to Russia after spending several years at a Swiss sanatorium. Scorned by the society of St. Petersburgh for his Idiocy (epilepsy) and being too generous and innocent, he finds himself at the center of a struggle between a rich, kept woman and a gorgeous, virtuous girl who both wish to win his affection. Unfortunately, Myshkin's...
1805, War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir) is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy’s two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the...
When Arcady Kirsanov returns from college to the country manor of his father, he brings along his radical friend Bazarov, a nihilist who believes in nothing and respects no one. But behind the intellect of this caustic, impatient man is a heart full of compassion and kindness that will change the Kirsanov's lives forever.
When Ivan Turgenev first published this novel in 1862, the...
When Arcady Kirsanov returns from college to the country manor of his father, he brings along his radical friend Bazarov, a nihilist who believes in nothing and respects no one. But behind the intellect of this caustic, impatient man is a heart full of compassion and kindness that will change the Kirsanov's lives forever.
When Ivan Turgenev first published this novel in 1862, the...
Read by Georg Guidall. — Record Books ltd., 1994. — 96 kbps. — Duration 08:13:00. Ivan Turgenev’s stories have enchanted generations with delicate prose, marvelously subtle irony, and richly crafted characters. Set against the serene backdrop of the Russian countryside, Fathers and Sons is the story of Arcady Kirsanov, a young man who returns from college to his father’s...
Read by Georg Guidall. — Record Books ltd., 1994. — 96 kbps. — Duration 08:13:00. Ivan Turgenev’s stories have enchanted generations with delicate prose, marvelously subtle irony, and richly crafted characters. Set against the serene backdrop of the Russian countryside, Fathers and Sons is the story of Arcady Kirsanov, a young man who returns from college to his father’s...
Read by Grover Gardner. — Audible, 2011. — 64 kbps. — Duration 06:56:00. — ASIN B004UR4RA8. The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia Yevgeny Zamyatin's We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines,...
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