The Queen of Spades
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Eugene Onegin
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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- By: Nikolai Gogol
- Narrated by: Kate Shrewsday
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 56
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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The Life, Death, and Life After Death of Akaky
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The Coffin Maker
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- Length: 18 mins
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- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
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- Unabridged
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Take the leap of faith
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Eugene Onegin
- A Novel in Verse
- By: Alexander Pushkin, James E. Falen (translator)
- Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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3 out of 5 stars
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Pushkin and Falen are brilliant, not so Corkhill
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The Myth of Sisyphus
- By: Albert Camus
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 400
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 374
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Story4 out of 5 stars 376
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5 out of 5 stars
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two thumbs up
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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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'Breathtakingly brilliant tour de force'
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O. Henry: Complete Short Stories Collection
- By: O. Henry, William Sydney Porter
- Narrated by: Bob Thomley
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 132
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 123
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Mis-named: This is not a complete collection
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- By: Gustave Flaubert
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- Abridged
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2 out of 5 stars
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- By: Leo Tolstoy
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Death in Venice
- By: Thomas Mann
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A problem with the narration
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Notes from the Underground (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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- Unabridged
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Amazing
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The Weird Circle
- The Pistol Shot (Dramatized)
- By: Alexander Pushkin
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- Original Recording
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The Weird Circle, featuring tales of terror and horror, aired from 1943-1947, mainly on the Mutual radio network. This episode was originally broadcast on March 18, 1945.
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4 out of 5 stars
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worth a listen
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Dead Souls
- By: Nikolai Gogol, Constance Garnett - translator
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- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Gogol's great Russian classic is the Pickwick Papers of Russian literature. It takes a sharp but humorous look at life in all its strata but especially the devious complexities in Russia, with its landowners and serfs. We are introduced to Chichikov, a businessman who, in order to trick the tax authorities, buys up dead 'souls', or serfs, whose names still appear on the government census. Despite being a dealer in phantom crimes and paper ghosts, he is the most beguiling of Gogol's characters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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- By: Mikhail Bulgakov
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4 out of 5 stars
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Satisfying Satanic Satire
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At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England’s irrevocable transformation. A second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged, Jamaican half his age, quite literally gives Archie a second lease on life, and produces Irie, a knowing child whose personality doesn’t quite match her name (Jamaican for “no problem”). Samad’s late-in-life arranged marriage produces twin sons whose separate paths confound Iqbal’s every effort to direct them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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4.68 stars....a modern classic
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Publisher's Summary
Alexander Pushkin's greatest short story. Hermann, a young German officer serving in the Engineers regiment, is obsessed by gambling, although he never indulges in it himself. One night he hears a tale about how a wealthy 87-year-old Countess in St. Petersburg once learned the secret of how to win on three cards from the Duc d'Orleans. He becomes obsessed with learning the secret himself.
In pursuit of this aim, he becomes enamoured of the Countess' companion, the beautiful Lizaveta. A nocturnal visit to his paramour, however, turns to tragedy as he finds himself in the chamber of the Countess and tries first by persuasion and then by force to get her to reveal the secret of the cards. The denouement of the story is uncanny and captivating.
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- Ian Stamme
- 03-16-17
Pushkin's greatness ruined by narrator
The narrator uses a maddeningly staccato delivery over and over again, as if every 5th line or so is a punch line to a stand-up comedy routine.
I love Russian literature, but I found it near impossible to focus on the story given how annoying the narration was.
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- Amazon Customer
- 01-25-19
Really poor narration
Honestly, this is the weirdest voice I have heard on audible. Totally unsuitable for this book.
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