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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
- In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
- By: George Saunders
- Narrated by: George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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For the last 20 years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us....
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An innovative and fresh listening experience
- By Scott Garrioch on 01-14-21
By: George Saunders
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The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 2
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 27 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum....
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I wish Jordan B. Peterson could have narrated
- By Lukas Kubik on 11-17-20
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky Collection: The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and Notes from the Underground
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: Michael A. Harding
- Length: 96 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Step into the rich history and culture of Mother Russia with this classic collection by esteemed writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky. With his penchant for gripping prose and powerful themes that unmasked the social struggles and intellectual clashes of his day....
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overly animated narrator
- By Sarah and Harry on 12-15-22
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The Master and Margarita
- By: Mikhail Bulgakov
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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The Master and Margarita is one of the most famous and best-selling Russian novels of the 20th century, despite its surreal environment....
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Very vivid and amazing writing style
- By Sina Beni on 05-04-22
By: Mikhail Bulgakov
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Fifty-Two Stories
- 1883-1898
- By: Anton Chekhov, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrated by: Jim Frangione
- Length: 20 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and War and Peace: a lavish, masterfully rendered volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time....
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Annoying narrator
- By Mida on 07-01-20
By: Anton Chekhov, and others
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The Fyodor Dostoevsky BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Including Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Devils & The Brothers Karamazov
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: Roy Marsden, Alex Jennings, Roger Allam, and others
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
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BBC radio productions of Dostoevsky's masterpieces, plus selected shorter fiction and bonus programmes exploring his life and work....
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Awful. Just read/listen to the actual books
- By wahwah on 05-02-22
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
- In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
- By: George Saunders
- Narrated by: George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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For the last 20 years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us....
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An innovative and fresh listening experience
- By Scott Garrioch on 01-14-21
By: George Saunders
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The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 2
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 27 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum....
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I wish Jordan B. Peterson could have narrated
- By Lukas Kubik on 11-17-20
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky Collection: The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and Notes from the Underground
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: Michael A. Harding
- Length: 96 hrs and 12 mins
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Step into the rich history and culture of Mother Russia with this classic collection by esteemed writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky. With his penchant for gripping prose and powerful themes that unmasked the social struggles and intellectual clashes of his day....
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overly animated narrator
- By Sarah and Harry on 12-15-22
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The Master and Margarita
- By: Mikhail Bulgakov
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Abridged
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The Master and Margarita is one of the most famous and best-selling Russian novels of the 20th century, despite its surreal environment....
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Very vivid and amazing writing style
- By Sina Beni on 05-04-22
By: Mikhail Bulgakov
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Fifty-Two Stories
- 1883-1898
- By: Anton Chekhov, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrated by: Jim Frangione
- Length: 20 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and War and Peace: a lavish, masterfully rendered volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time....
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Annoying narrator
- By Mida on 07-01-20
By: Anton Chekhov, and others
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The Fyodor Dostoevsky BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Including Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Devils & The Brothers Karamazov
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: Roy Marsden, Alex Jennings, Roger Allam, and others
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
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BBC radio productions of Dostoevsky's masterpieces, plus selected shorter fiction and bonus programmes exploring his life and work....
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Awful. Just read/listen to the actual books
- By wahwah on 05-02-22
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Creating Anna Karenina
- Tolstoy and the Birth of Literature's Most Enigmatic Heroine
- By: Bob Blaisdell, Boris Dralyuk - foreword
- Narrated by: Gemma Dawson
- Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The story behind the origins of Anna Karenina and the turbulent life and times of Leo Tolstoy....
By: Bob Blaisdell, and others
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A Confession
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
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A Confession, or My Confession, is a short work on the subject of melancholia, philosophy and religion by the acclaimed Russian...
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Awaken my soul
- By Izzatullah Muhammad on 01-23-23
By: Leo Tolstoy
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Crime and Punishment (Recorded Books Edition)
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett - translator
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 25 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is universally regarded as one of literature's finest...
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Masterful narration of a masterpiece
- By John on 07-30-08
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, and others
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Кобзар [Kobzar] (Ukrainian Edition)
- By: Тарас Шевченко
- Narrated by: Ruslan Drapaljuk
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Кобзар - збірка поетичних творів геніального українського митця Тараса Григоровича Шевченка, що увібрала в собі найбільш видатні його вірші та поеми....
By: Тарас Шевченко
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Invitation to a Beheading
- By: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude." an imaginary crime that defies definition....
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Nabokov's Strange Violin Playing in the Void
- By Darwin8u on 10-28-12
By: Vladimir Nabokov
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Illuminations
- Essays and Reflections
- By: Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht’s epic theater....
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finally
- By Anonymous User on 12-08-21
By: Walter Benjamin, and others
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A Rare Recording of Yuri Bezmenov
- By: Yuri Bezmenov
- Narrated by: Yuri Bezmenov
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
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Yuri Bezmenov (1939-January 5, 1993) was a Soviet journalist for RIA Novosti and a former KGB informant who defected to Canada in 1971. After being assigned to a station in India, Bezmenov eventually grew to love the people and the culture of India....
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2000-2022
- By Jimmie Rodriguez on 01-18-22
By: Yuri Bezmenov
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65+ Russian Short Stories Classic Collection
- The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, Notes from the Underground, A Confession, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, The Gentleman from San Francisco, First Love, The Mantle, The Embroidered Towel, The Beer Story and Others Stories
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, and others
- Narrated by: Peter Coates, M. Goodrick, Mark Bowen, and others
- Length: 43 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Russian short stories are known for being melancholy, often dealing with suffering. However, they can also be funny and absurd....
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, and others
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The Hedgehog and the Fox (Second Edition)
- An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History
- By: Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy - editor, Michael Ignatieff - foreword
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history....
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The Fox Who Tried To Be A Hedgehog
- By Rich S. on 12-14-21
By: Isaiah Berlin, and others
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War and Peace
- BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Paterson Joseph, John Hurt, Simon Russell Beale, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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Paterson Joseph, John Hurt, Lesley Manville and Harriet Walter are among the cast of BBC Radio 4's epic full-cast dramatisation....
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Engrossing
- By linda on 09-22-17
By: Leo Tolstoy
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Letters to a Young Poet
- With the Letters to Rilke from the "Young Poet"
- By: Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver Kappus, Damion Searls - translator
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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A work that has inspired generations, this new edition of Letters to a Young Poet features a fresh translation of Rilke's 10 classic letters, along with the missing letters from the young poet himself....
By: Rainer Maria Rilke, and others
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Crime and Punishment
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St. Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret....
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Absorbing tale
- By greydor on 05-11-05
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The Three Sisters
- By: Anton Chekhov, Julius West - translator
- Narrated by: Andy Harrington, Leanne Yau, Elizabeth Chambers, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The Three Sisters is Anton Chekhov's 1901 play about the Prosorov family, who are stuck in a provincial Russian town....
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Good effort
- By L E Stewart on 01-12-23
By: Anton Chekhov, and others
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In the Ravine and Other Stories
- By: Anton Chekhov
- Narrated by: Kenneth Branagh
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Here are 11 short stories and one novella by Anton Chekhov, one of the finest masters of what is acknowledged as a difficult genre....
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Fine Stories about Mother Russia & the Human Heart
- By Jefferson on 08-22-15
By: Anton Chekhov
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The Possessed
- Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
- By: Elif Batuman
- Narrated by: Elif Batuman
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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The true but unlikely stories of lives devoted - absurdly! Melancholically! Beautifully! - to the Russian classics....
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Dear Russian Literary Diary...
- By Darwin8u on 08-29-17
By: Elif Batuman
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Evgenii Onegin
- A New Translation by Mary Hobson
- By: Alexander Pushkin, Mary Hobson - translator
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Evgenii Onegin is best known in the West through Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin. But the original narrative poem is one of the landmarks of Russian literature....
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'Breathtakingly brilliant tour de force'
- By Joseph M. on 11-01-12
By: Alexander Pushkin, and others
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The Seagull
- By: Anton Chekhov, George Calderon - translator
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett, Andy Harrington, Ron Altman, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
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The Seagull is Anton Chekhov's first major play, originally produced in 1896. It dramatizes the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters....
By: Anton Chekhov, and others
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On Our Way Home from the Revolution
- Reflections on Ukraine
- By: Sonya Bilocerkowycz
- Narrated by: Sonya Bilocerkowycz
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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In 2014, Sonya Bilocerkowycz is a tourist at a deadly revolution. At first she is enamored with the Ukrainians' idealism, which reminds her of her own patriotic family. But when the romantic revolution melts into a war with Russia, she becomes disillusioned....
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A personal look into a deeply political war
- By Amazon Customer on 09-15-22
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Анна Каренина 1-8
- By: Лев Толстой
- Narrated by: Александр Клюквин
- Length: 34 hrs and 37 mins
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Роман "Анна Каренина" был написан Л. Н. Толстым в 1877 году, а год спустя...
By: Лев Толстой
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The Queen of Spades
- By: Alexander Pushkin
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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Alexander Pushkin's greatest short story....
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Pushkin's greatness ruined by narrator
- By Ian Stamme on 03-16-17
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50 Great Russian Short Stories
- Illustrated: Notes from the Underground, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, The Lady with the Dog, First Love, The Mantle, The Queen ... The Embroidered Towel and Others Stories
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, and others
- Narrated by: P. Coates, M. Goodrick, M. Bowen, and others
- Length: 38 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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The collection includes the best works of famous Russian writers Fyodor Dostoevesky, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev, and more....
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Garbage narration, not worth it
- By Max Osterhaus on 08-09-22
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, and others
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A Hero of Our Time
- By: Mikhail Lermontov
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Grigori Aleksandrovich Pechorin is an enigma: arrogant, cocky, melancholic, brave, cynic, romantic, loner, socialite, soldier, free soul, and yet, victim of the world, he eludes definition....
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Loved it!
- By Anthony W. on 09-28-22
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Russische Meistererzählungen
- By: Fjodor M. Dostojewski, Alexander Puschkin, Nikolai Leskow
- Narrated by: Gert Westphal, Dieter Hildebrandt
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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"Die Russische Seele ist ein Rätsel." Fjodor Dostojewski. Über 11 Stunden Russland zum Hören. Russland hat eine Vielzahl herausragender...
By: Fjodor M. Dostojewski, and others
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Notes from a Dead House
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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From renowned translators Richard Pevear and Lindsay Volokhonsky comes a new translation - certain to become the definitive version - of the first great prison memoir....
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FYODORange is the New Black
- By Darwin8u on 07-13-15