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First published in Russia as Geroy Nashego Vremeni, A Hero of Our Time is set in the Russian Caucasus in the 1830s.
In A Hero of Our Time, Grigory Pechorin is a bored, self-centered, and cynical young army officer who believes in nothing. With impunity he toys with the love of women and the goodwill of men. He is brave, determined, and willful, but his wasted energy and potential ultimately result in tragedy.
This psychologically probing portrait of a disillusioned 19th-century aristocrat and its use of a nonchronological and multifaceted narrative structure influenced such later Russian authors as Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy and presaged the antiheroes and antinovels of 20th-century fiction.
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When Arkady Petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naive son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable Arkady has fallen under the powerful influence of the friend he has brought with him. A self-proclaimed nihilist, the ardent young Bazarov shocks Arkady's father by criticising the landowning way of life and by his outspoken determination to sweep away the traditional values of contemporary Russian society.
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The greatest novel I'll ever read
- De Dan Harlow en 07-07-13
De: Ivan Turgenev
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Dombey and Son
- De: Charles Dickens
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 36 h y 59 m
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In this carefully crafted novel, Dickens reveals the complexity of London society in the enterprising 1840s as he takes the listener into the business firm and home of one of its most representative patriarchs, Paul Dombey.
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Perfect pair
- De Philip en 03-25-08
De: Charles Dickens
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War and Peace
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: Neville Jason
- Duración: 5 h y 9 m
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War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, it examines the relationship between the individual and the relentless march of history. Here are the universal themes of love and hate, ambition and despair, youth and age, expressed with a swirling vitality which makes the story as accessible today as it was when it was first published in 1869.
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ABRIDGED VERSION
- De Danielle en 06-10-19
De: Leo Tolstoy
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The Count of Monte Cristo (AmazonClassics Edition)
- De: Alexandre Dumas
- Narrado por: Guy Mott
- Duración: 55 h y 37 m
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After fourteen years of wrongful imprisonment, merchant sailor Edmond Dantès escapes his grim island fortress. With the promises of youth erased and his betrothed now married to someone else, Dantès lives for one purpose: revenge.
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Best narrated version on Audible
- De Amazon Customer en 06-13-21
De: Alexandre Dumas
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The Four Feathers
- De: A. E. W. Mason
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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Just before his regiment sails off to war in the Sudan, British officer Harry Feversham quits the military. He is immediately given four white feathers as symbols of cowardice, one by each of his three best friends and one by his fiancée. To disprove this grave dishonor, Harry dons an Arabian disguise and leaves for the Sudan, where he anonymously comes to the aid of his three friends, saving each of their lives. Having proven his bravery, Harry returns to England, hoping to regain the love and respect of his fiancée.
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Deep Realistic Story Masterfully Read
- De Kappavpi en 07-05-04
De: A. E. W. Mason
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The Return of the Native
- De: Thomas Hardy
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 13 h y 18 m
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One of Thomas Hardy's classic statements about modern love, courtship, and marriage, The Return of the Native is set in the pastoral village of Egdon Heath. The fiery Eustacia Vye, wishing only for passionate love, believes that her escape from Egdon lies in her marriage to Clym Yeobright, the returning "native", home from Paris and discontented with his work there.
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How Sweet the Sound
- De KP en 04-10-13
De: Thomas Hardy
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
- De: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 4 h y 31 m
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Werther, a sensitive young artist, finds himself in Wahlheim, a quiet, attractive village in Germany where he seeks solace from the turmoils of love. It is a young spring, and he hopes that arcadian solitude will prove a genial balm to his mind. But his romantic tendency rules otherwise, and he falls in love with Charlotte - Lotte - even though he knows she is affianced to another.
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Great performance for a classical story.
- De Brandon Shaw en 09-15-17
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Far From the Madding Crowd
- De: Thomas Hardy
- Narrado por: Jamie Parker
- Duración: 14 h y 52 m
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In a remote corner of early Victorian England, where traditional practices remain untouched by time, Bathsheba Everdene stands out as a beacon of female independence and self-reliance. However, when confronted with three suitors, among them the dashing Sergeant Troy, she shows a reckless capriciousness that threatens the stability of the whole community. Published in 1874, and an immediate best seller, Far From the Madding Crowd established Thomas Hardy as one of Britain's foremost novelists.
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A Masterpiece of Culture and Eloquence
- De Andrew en 07-07-14
De: Thomas Hardy
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
- De: Baroness Orczy
- Narrado por: David Thorn
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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Welcome to the French Revolution, where a dashing English aristocrat risks his life to enter France and save innocents from the guillotine.
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a secret society of English aristocrats who are determined to rescue their French counterparts from execution. Their leader is the mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel, whose name comes from the drawing of a red flower he uses to sign his messages.
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Great Performance, Awful Production
- De John en 02-24-14
De: Baroness Orczy
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A Hero of Our Time
- De: Mikhail Lermontov
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
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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 and remains a mystery to those who know him. Just who is he? And what does he hope to achieve? Evolving from first person to third person, and then into a diary, A Hero of Our Time takes on a variety of forms to interrogate Pechorin's cryptic character and his unusual philosophy, providing breathtaking descriptions of the Caucasus along the way.
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Sarcastic Title
- De SmartShopper en 04-23-24
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Eugene Onegin
- A Novel in Verse
- De: Alexander Pushkin, James E. Falen - translator
- Narrado por: Raphael Corkhill
- Duración: 4 h y 27 m
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Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s imperial Russia, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men - Onegin the bored fop, Lensky the minor elegiast, and a stylized Pushkin himself - and the fates and affections of three women - Tatyana the provincial beauty, her sister Olga, and Pushkin's mercurial Muse.
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Pushkin and Falen are brilliant, Corkhill not bad
- De Jabba en 05-17-15
De: Alexander Pushkin, y otros
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Fathers and Sons
- De: Ivan Turgenev
- Narrado por: David Horovitch
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
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When Arkady Petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naive son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable Arkady has fallen under the powerful influence of the friend he has brought with him. A self-proclaimed nihilist, the ardent young Bazarov shocks Arkady's father by criticising the landowning way of life and by his outspoken determination to sweep away the traditional values of contemporary Russian society.
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The greatest novel I'll ever read
- De Dan Harlow en 07-07-13
De: Ivan Turgenev
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Oblomov
- De: Ivan Goncharov, C. J. Hogarth
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 6 h y 18 m
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This novel centers on the figure of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, a member of the dying class of the landed gentry, who spends most of his time lying in bed gazing at life in an apathetic daze, encouraged by his equally lazy servant Zakhar and routinely swindled by his acquaintances. But this torpid existence comes to an end when, spurred on by his crumbling finances, the love of a woman, and the reproaches of his friend, the hardworking Schtoltz, Oblomov finds that he must engage with the real world and face up to his commitments.
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Good reading, great book - imperfect translation
- De Amazon Customer en 07-28-19
De: Ivan Goncharov, y otros
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Dead Souls
- De: Nikolai Gogol, Constance Garnett - translator
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
- Duración: 14 h y 54 m
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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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Hilarious and well done, but massive sections of the manuscript are missing?
- De C. E. Johnson en 11-19-18
De: Nikolai Gogol, y otros
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Egyptian Nights and Other Tales of Imagination and Romance
- De: Alexander Pushkin
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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This original compilation from Skyboat Media features the most inventive and poetic of Alexander Pushkin’s short fiction. Exposed to French culture at a young age, Pushkin’s work reflects these sensibilities, and he combines this with stories of his Russian ancestors that his grandmother would relate to him and his siblings during their summers near Moscow.
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Marvelous
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A Hero of Our Time
- De: Mikhail Lermontov
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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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 and remains a mystery to those who know him. Just who is he? And what does he hope to achieve? Evolving from first person to third person, and then into a diary, A Hero of Our Time takes on a variety of forms to interrogate Pechorin's cryptic character and his unusual philosophy, providing breathtaking descriptions of the Caucasus along the way.
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Sarcastic Title
- De SmartShopper en 04-23-24
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Eugene Onegin
- A Novel in Verse
- De: Alexander Pushkin, James E. Falen - translator
- Narrado por: Raphael Corkhill
- Duración: 4 h y 27 m
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Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s imperial Russia, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men - Onegin the bored fop, Lensky the minor elegiast, and a stylized Pushkin himself - and the fates and affections of three women - Tatyana the provincial beauty, her sister Olga, and Pushkin's mercurial Muse.
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Pushkin and Falen are brilliant, Corkhill not bad
- De Jabba en 05-17-15
De: Alexander Pushkin, y otros
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Fathers and Sons
- De: Ivan Turgenev
- Narrado por: David Horovitch
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
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When Arkady Petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naive son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable Arkady has fallen under the powerful influence of the friend he has brought with him. A self-proclaimed nihilist, the ardent young Bazarov shocks Arkady's father by criticising the landowning way of life and by his outspoken determination to sweep away the traditional values of contemporary Russian society.
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The greatest novel I'll ever read
- De Dan Harlow en 07-07-13
De: Ivan Turgenev
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Oblomov
- De: Ivan Goncharov, C. J. Hogarth
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 6 h y 18 m
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This novel centers on the figure of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, a member of the dying class of the landed gentry, who spends most of his time lying in bed gazing at life in an apathetic daze, encouraged by his equally lazy servant Zakhar and routinely swindled by his acquaintances. But this torpid existence comes to an end when, spurred on by his crumbling finances, the love of a woman, and the reproaches of his friend, the hardworking Schtoltz, Oblomov finds that he must engage with the real world and face up to his commitments.
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Good reading, great book - imperfect translation
- De Amazon Customer en 07-28-19
De: Ivan Goncharov, y otros
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Dead Souls
- De: Nikolai Gogol, Constance Garnett - translator
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
- Duración: 14 h y 54 m
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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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Hilarious and well done, but massive sections of the manuscript are missing?
- De C. E. Johnson en 11-19-18
De: Nikolai Gogol, y otros
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Egyptian Nights and Other Tales of Imagination and Romance
- De: Alexander Pushkin
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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This original compilation from Skyboat Media features the most inventive and poetic of Alexander Pushkin’s short fiction. Exposed to French culture at a young age, Pushkin’s work reflects these sensibilities, and he combines this with stories of his Russian ancestors that his grandmother would relate to him and his siblings during their summers near Moscow.
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Marvelous
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Evgenii Onegin
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- De: Alexander Pushkin, Mary Hobson - translator
- Narrado por: Neville Jason
- Duración: 4 h y 27 m
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Evgenii Onegin is best known in the West through Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin. But the original narrative poem (consisting of 389 stanzas, the form of which has become known as the "Pushkin sonnet") is one of the landmarks of Russian literature. In the poem, the eponymous hero repudiates love, only to later experience the pain of rejection himself. Pushkin’s unique style proves timeless in its exploration of love, life, passion, jealousy, and the consequences of social convention.
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'Breathtakingly brilliant tour de force'
- De Joseph M. en 11-01-12
De: Alexander Pushkin, y otros
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A Hero of Our Time
- De: Mikhail Lermontov
- Narrado por: Andrea Giordani
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
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A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov was published in 1840. Set in the Russian Caucasus in the 1830s, the novel relates a series of adventures by the military officer Pechorin during his travels in the Caucasus. He kidnaps the daughter of a Circassian tribesman, becomes entangled with a group of smugglers, and tries to win the affection of a Muscovite princess while having on an affair with his former lover Vera.
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Dead Souls
- De: Nikolai Gogol, C. J. Hogarth - translator
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 15 h y 50 m
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Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these "souls" as collateral to reinvent himself as a gentleman. In this ebullient masterpiece, Nikolai Gogol created a grotesque gallery of human types.
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Captures absurdity of mid 19th century Russia
- De Darwin8u en 10-26-12
De: Nikolai Gogol, y otros
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The Kreutzer Sonata
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 3 h y 30 m
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One of the world’s greatest novelists, Leo Tolstoy was also the author of a number of superb short stories, one of his best known being “The Kreutzer Sonata.” This macabre story involves the murder of a wife by her husband. It is a penetrating study of jealousy as well as a piercing complaint about the way in which society educates men and women in matters of sex - a serious condemnation of the mores and attitudes of the wealthy, educated class.
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Love, Marriage, Family:: Wine, Women, Music
- De Darwin8u en 02-02-19
De: Leo Tolstoy
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The Overcoat and Other Russian Tales
- De: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 7 h y 53 m
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A lowly government clerk, Akay Akakiyevich, must scrimp and save to purchase a new coat for the cold Russian winter in “The Overcoat”. But after one night of basking in the warmth of his new coat and the respect of his colleagues, Akaky’s one-of-a-kind overcoat is stolen. In his pursuit of justice, Akaky receives no help and is consumed by the loss of his prized possession. In “The Viy”, Gogol recounts a popular folk story in which a monstrous creature, known to Little Russia as the king of gnomes, helps a witch get revenge on a young student who escaped from her trap.
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Notes from Underground
- De: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 4 h y 49 m
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"I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man", a nameless voice cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the painful self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn of a lonely individual who has become one of the greatest anti-heroes in all literature.
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Hands down the best version!
- De Brandon en 04-23-18
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Dead Souls
- Penguin Classics
- De: Nikolay Gogol, Robert Maguire
- Narrado por: Allan Corduner
- Duración: 18 h y 22 m
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Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of 'N', visiting a succession of landowners and making each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these 'dead souls' as collateral to re-invent himself as a aristocrat. In this ebullient picaresque masterpiece, Gogol created a grotesque gallery of human types, from the bear-like Sobakevich to the insubstantial fool Manilov and, above all, the devilish con man Chichikov.
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Excellent Narration
- De A. T. Howarth en 03-19-22
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The Gambler
- De: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
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The Gambler paints a stark picture of the attractions—and addictions—of gambling. Using skillful characterization, Dostoevsky faithfully depicts life among the gambling set in old Germany. This probing psychological novel explores the tangled love affairs and complicated lives of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young gambler, and Polina Alexandrovna, the woman he loves.
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Gravity of odds and the frailty of human hope
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Notes from Underground
- De: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 4 h y 35 m
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"I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man", a nameless voice cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the painful self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn of a lonely individual who has become one of the greatest anti-heroes in all literature.
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Unbelievable
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The Devil and Other Stories
- De: Leo Tolstoy, Richard F. Gustafson
- Narrado por: Kevin R. Free, George Guidall, T. Ryder Smith, y otros
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This collection of 11 stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy's creative life. While each is unique in form, as a group they are representative of his style, and touch on the central themes that surface in War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Stories as different as "The Snowstorm", "Lucerne", "The Diary of a Madman", and "The Devil" are grounded in autobiographical experience. They deal with journeys of self-discovery and the moral and religious thought that characterizes Tolstoy's works of criticism and philosophy.
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Amazing Tolstoy. Poor narration
- De Joe Moore en 02-25-16
De: Leo Tolstoy, y otros
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- De: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Narrado por: Richard Brown
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One of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union, this is the story of labor camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov and his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of Communist oppression. Based on the author’s own experience in the gulags, where he spent nearly a decade as punishment for making derogatory remarks against Stalin, the novel is an unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin’s forced work camps.
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I wanted way more than one day -
- De Jan en 03-25-13
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A Confession
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 2 h y 25 m
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Tolstoy’s autobiographical essay is a dissection of his soul, a study of his life’s movement away from the religious certainties of youth, and a vital piece of reading which contextualizes the great works he is best known for. Marking the point at which his life moved from the worldly to the spiritual, Tolstoy’s philosophical reassessment of the Orthodox faith is a work that holds vital spiritual and intellectual importance to this very day.
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Wow
- De David Murphy en 05-25-16
De: Leo Tolstoy
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Begay! GT Human … all human
Great and deep social and psychological observations. An emotional journey in human mind, interaction and motivation. Pure, at times even cruel realism.
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- 08-12-23
A must read.
One of the best books I’ve ever read. Hard to believe it was written in 1839. Highly recommend.
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- Tim Martin
- 09-26-20
Likeable bastard
The story of a dashing anti-hero, Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin told from multiple perspectives. Captures the spirit of the times - especially in regard to personal honour lost and gained - but just as relevant today concerning our personal choices and their consequences. Once you've finished, look up Mikhail Lermontov's bio for a hard-to-match bitter irony.
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- Brad Isaak
- 11-06-16
Genius Presentation of Ywtsaxt fas
genius writing. interesting main character. great description of the soul and inner struggle. well performed and provocative. a hidden gem
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- Bjørn
- 03-28-24
Good
Good solid k k k k k k k k j k k
Gfg hhh yeez what
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- Jeff Lacy
- 06-17-17
Rising inflection
I had to get use to Clive Chafer's voice. At first it sounded as if he was reading it with the tone of sarcasm. But as the novel progressed I got use to his voice and it did not chafe me as badly. That is not to say I would pick him to narrate any other book I chose. One particular thing he does is end many of his interrogatory sentences with a rising inflection. And so it sounds like a BBC reporter narrating the story. This is very irritating. His voice never got out of the way of the story. It lacked sensitivity. However, it did add a better appreciation to the simultaneous reading of the novel.
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- JJ West
- 03-24-21
An overlooked great literary work
Hard to imagine that this book was written when the author was only 23 and he died at the tender age of 26. Anyway, a compelling story that only gets better as it goes on. I thought the narrator was annoying at 1st but later realised that his delivery fit that of a bored jaded young man thus nicely fitting the narrator of the book.
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- just asking for some common sense
- 10-31-20
An interesting book, better speed up a little
I did like this book very much. If this author hadn't been killed in a duel at age 26 then I can imagine he would have become one of the greatest Russian writers. I really would like to give this a little over 4 stars, but it's not quite 5 stars for me. Still I would recommend this because it's unusual and interesting. Its structure is different, being in 5 sections, so don't expect a regular plot line. I got this book after seeing it in my Audible suggestions. They know me well - I do like a good Russian novel.
I thought the narration good, but I usually listen a little faster. I listened to a little at regular speed and it's way too slow. I suggest going in at 1.10 to 1.25 speed. He's great with voices at least.
I listened to Novels in Translation all summer and a little beyond. I am late delivering my review.
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- John
- 11-28-23
Can't Understand Why I Enjoyed This One
The hero is a self-absorbed Byronic mess of contradictions, so much so that, near the end of the novel he opines that after his death some will say he was a good fellow while others will say he was a rogue, and that neither will be right. And he's right.
Maybe its the fascination of a bad sort who looks (at times) as if he's about to do the right thing. Maybe it's the morbid charm of a dissolute life. Certainly a man who cannot see the point of being alive (and therefore has no motivation more vital than the pursuit of pleasure) has its voyeuristic attractions. But I think it's the complex, tragic irony of the plot and its denouement that kept me going.
Clive Chaffer does a fine job, but he needs to be sped up a little. 1.1x worked for me.
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- Martha
- 04-11-22
Not great
So, this is supposed to be about a mysterious antihero or whatever, but he mainly came across as what every pickup artist would like to see themselves as. I can generally set aside my own cultural relativism when engaging is older works of literature, but when you start out with the "hero" kidnapping and sexually assaulting a teenager, inadvertently getting her father murdered in the process, then keeping her imprisoned for months using all of his manipulation skills to get her to care about him, only to then get bored of her and then accidently get her killed too... I don't love it. The two main sections are this storyline and one where he literally plays with a woman's feelings and breaks her heart just because. I guess I'm just done with people trying to build up admiration and mystique around selfish womanizers, which was very much what this book was doing.
That being said, I enjoyed the sections that weren't part of the womanizer stories. There were stories about creepy cabins, spooky predestination, and fatal duels that were very good, but, unfortunately, much shorter than the two main stories about how using and discarding women makes somebody super deep and complex and interesting.
I think that it's important, when you're reading a book or studying a person from the past to be able to see past your own, modern sense of morality to try to understand the world the person lived or the book was written in. I think that the value of this comes in our shared humanity. A person who lived in a different society with different values was still a person, and they probably had brilliant insights on the nature of being human and of being alive that stretch far beyond a particular place or a particular time, and that we shouldn't let a different worldview blind us to the insight they can provide. The problem with this book, is that almost the entire thing is a solid block of "things you need to understand in their historical context and look past" with no story underneath.
The truth of the matter is, I did not dislike this book. It was full of distasteful elements that I hated, but I could separate those from my own modern sense of morality. The issue is, when the book was stripped of those elements, there wasn't enough left over to really form an opinion on. Ultimately, the story felt hollow.
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