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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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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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Voices
- By Courtney Duvall on 01-18-23
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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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Stalingrad
- By: Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler - translator, Elizabeth Chandler - translator
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh, Elliot Levey
- Length: 37 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The story told in Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad unfolds across the length and breadth of Russia and Europe. At the heart of the novel is the Shaposhnikov family. Even as the Germans advance, the matriarch, Alexandra Vladimirovna, refuses to leave Stalingrad.
By: Vasily Grossman, and others
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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 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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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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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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Voices
- By Courtney Duvall on 01-18-23
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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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Stalingrad
- By: Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler - translator, Elizabeth Chandler - translator
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh, Elliot Levey
- Length: 37 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The story told in Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad unfolds across the length and breadth of Russia and Europe. At the heart of the novel is the Shaposhnikov family. Even as the Germans advance, the matriarch, Alexandra Vladimirovna, refuses to leave Stalingrad.
By: Vasily Grossman, and others
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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 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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The Cherry Orchard
- By: Anton Chekhov
- Narrated by: Marsha Mason, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
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A work of timeless, bittersweet beauty about the fading fortunes of an aristocratic Russian family....
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Wonderfully Vibrant Production
- By Andre on 11-18-11
By: Anton Chekhov
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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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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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We
- By: Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Narrated by: Trevor O'Hare
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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We (Russian: Мы, romanized: My) is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920–1921. The novel was first published as an English...
By: Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
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After narrowly avoiding a firing squad when he was just twenty-eight years old, Dostoevsky never took things lightly....
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Appetizer!
- By Cam on 04-04-13
By: Paul Strathern
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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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War and Peace
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 59 hrs and 5 mins
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Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia....
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Book 8 Chapter 14 Leo Loses it
- By shalte on 05-05-23
By: Leo Tolstoy
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The Cherry Orchard
- By: Anton Chekhov
- Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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The Cherry Orchard (1903) is the final play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It is considered as one of four outstanding plays by Chekhov. The narrative recounts an aristocratic landowner who returns to her family estate just before it is auctioned to pay the mortgage....
By: Anton Chekhov
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The Lady with the Dog
- By: Anton Chekhov
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 50 mins
- Unabridged
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"The Lady with the Dog" is a short story by Anton Chekhov. First published in 1899, it describes an adulterous affair between an unhappily married...
By: Anton Chekhov
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Notes from a Dead House
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
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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
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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...
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Невозможно оторваться
- By Anonymous User on 07-02-23
By: Лев Толстой
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The Pit
- By: Alexander Kuprin, Maria K. - translator
- Narrated by: Sky Wildmist
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Alexander Kuprin prefaced his novel The Pit about the lives of early 20th century Russian prostitutes as follows, "I know many people will find this novel amoral and inappropriate, but nevertheless I dedicated it from the bottom of my heart to mothers and young people"....
By: Alexander Kuprin, and others
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Guerra y paz
- By: Leon Tolstói, Joaquín Fernández-Valdés - traductor
- Narrated by: Mario Gas
- Length: 66 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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"No es una novela, aún menos un poema y aún menos una crónica histórica": así presentaba Lev N. Tolstói su monumental Guerra y paz, que, publicada por...
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Paciencia y tiempo
- By Mario on 04-11-24
By: Leon Tolstói, 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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Selected Poems
- By: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
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These masterly poems span the whole of Nabokov's career from "Music," written in 1914, to the short, playful "To Vera," composed in 1974....
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Better than most poetry collections
- By Michael on 08-30-12
By: Vladimir Nabokov
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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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Sarcastic Title
- By SmartShopper on 04-23-24
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Hadji Murat
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1851 Leo Tolstoy enlisted in the Russian army and was sent to the Caucasus to help defeat the Chechens. During this war a great Avar chieftain, Hadji Murád, broke with the Chechen leader Shamil and fled to the Russians for safety....
By: Leo Tolstoy
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Идиот
- By: Федор Михайлович Достоевский
- Narrated by: Вячеслав Герасимов
- Length: 29 hrs and 48 mins
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В романе "Идиот" Достоевский стремился, по его словам, "изобразить вполне...
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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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Excellent
- By MOHAMMED ALMUSLEM on 05-31-23
By: Leo Tolstoy
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Uncle Vanya
- By: Anton Chekhov
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 2 hrs
- Unabridged
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Uncle Vanya is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1897. The play portrays the visit of an elderly professor and his...
By: Anton Chekhov
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War and Peace
- War and Peace 1
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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War and Peace is a literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It was first published serially...
By: Leo Tolstoy
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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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Братья Карамазовы 1-6
- By: Федор Достоевский
- Narrated by: Алексей Борзунов
- Length: 42 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Братья Карамазовы - последний роман Ф. М. Достоевского, который автор...
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Some technical issues
- By Andrii Chemerysov on 10-19-21
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Anna Karenina
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 39 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Many writers consider Anna Karenina the...
By: Leo Tolstoy
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War and Peace
- War and Peace 5
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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War and Peace is a literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It was first published serially, then published in its entirety in 1869. It is regarded as one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements and remains an internationally praised classic of world literature.
By: Leo Tolstoy
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Stalingrad
- By: Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler - translator, Elizabeth Chandler - translator
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh, Elliot Levey
- Length: 37 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The story told in Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad unfolds across the length and breadth of Russia and Europe. At the heart of the novel is the Shaposhnikov family. Even as the Germans advance, the matriarch, Alexandra Vladimirovna, refuses to leave Stalingrad. Far from the front, her eldest daughter, Ludmila, is unhappily married to the Jewish physicist Viktor Shtrum. Viktor's research may be of crucial military importance, but he is distracted by thoughts of his mother in the Ukraine, lost behind German lines.
By: Vasily Grossman, and others
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War and Peace
- War and Peace 4
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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War and Peace is a literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It was first published serially, then published in its entirety in 1869. It is regarded as one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements and remains an internationally praised classic of world literature.
By: Leo Tolstoy
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War and Peace
- War and Peace 3
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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War and Peace is a literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It was first published serially, then published in its entirety in 1869. It is regarded as one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements and remains an internationally praised classic of world literature.
By: Leo Tolstoy
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War and Peace
- War and Peace 2
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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War and Peace is a literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It was first published serially, then published in its entirety in 1869. It is regarded as one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements and remains an internationally praised classic of world literature.
By: Leo Tolstoy
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War and Peace
- War and Peace 1
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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War and Peace is a literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It was first published serially, then published in its entirety in 1869. It is regarded as one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements and remains an internationally praised classic of world literature.
By: Leo Tolstoy
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War and Peace
- War and Peace 5
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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War and Peace is a literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It was first published serially, then published in its entirety in 1869. It is regarded as one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements and remains an internationally praised classic of world literature.
By: Leo Tolstoy
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Stalingrad
- By: Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler - translator, Elizabeth Chandler - translator
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh, Elliot Levey
- Length: 37 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The story told in Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad unfolds across the length and breadth of Russia and Europe. At the heart of the novel is the Shaposhnikov family. Even as the Germans advance, the matriarch, Alexandra Vladimirovna, refuses to leave Stalingrad. Far from the front, her eldest daughter, Ludmila, is unhappily married to the Jewish physicist Viktor Shtrum. Viktor's research may be of crucial military importance, but he is distracted by thoughts of his mother in the Ukraine, lost behind German lines.
By: Vasily Grossman, and others
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War and Peace
- War and Peace 4
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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War and Peace is a literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It was first published serially, then published in its entirety in 1869. It is regarded as one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements and remains an internationally praised classic of world literature.
By: Leo Tolstoy
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War and Peace
- War and Peace 3
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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War and Peace is a literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It was first published serially, then published in its entirety in 1869. It is regarded as one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements and remains an internationally praised classic of world literature.
By: Leo Tolstoy
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War and Peace
- War and Peace 2
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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War and Peace is a literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It was first published serially, then published in its entirety in 1869. It is regarded as one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements and remains an internationally praised classic of world literature.
By: Leo Tolstoy
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War and Peace
- War and Peace 1
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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War and Peace is a literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It was first published serially, then published in its entirety in 1869. It is regarded as one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements and remains an internationally praised classic of world literature.
By: Leo Tolstoy
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The Outrage
- By: Aleksandr Kuprin
- Narrated by: Anthony Bottoms
- Length: 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Ivan Alekseevich Kuprin, a Russian writer of the early 20th century, was renowned for his short stories and novellas imbued with deep psychological insight and attention to detail. His works often depict the lives of ordinary people, their dreams, sufferings, and joys. Kuprin crafted vivid characters that continue to captivate readers with their authenticity and emotional depth.
By: Aleksandr Kuprin
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The Soul of Russia
- By: Morris Berman
- Narrated by: Todd Belcher
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In terms of literature, music, and film, it would be hard to outdo the sheer genius and creativity of Russia. These things constitute the soul of the nation, and it is this that Morris Berman explores in his latest work, The Soul of Russia.
By: Morris Berman
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Anthology of Short Stories - The Grammar of Love, the Gentleman from San Francisco, Gentle Breathing, Son, Unknown Friend
- By: Ivan Bunin
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 3 hrs
- Unabridged
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Ivan Bunin received the 1933 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing." Aristocrat to the core, Bunin somehow remained connected to the land and people and keenly felt their pulse of life. His acute observations resulted in the accurate and unforgettable characters who populated his writing. His love for punctuation and punctilious choice of words is legendary. Reading Bunin's stories is one of the best ways to understand the mysterious Russian soul and begin to understand one of Russia's greatest periods of literature.
By: Ivan Bunin
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The Grammar of Love
- By: Ivan Bunin
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Ivan Bunin received the 1933 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing." Aristocrat to the core, Bunin somehow remained connected to the land and people and keenly felt their pulse of life. His acute observations resulted in the accurate and unforgettable characters who populated his writing. His love for punctuation and punctilious choice of words is legendary. Reading Bunin's stories is one of the best ways to understand the mysterious Russian soul and begin to understand one of Russia's greatest periods of literature.
By: Ivan Bunin
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Son
- By: Ivan Bunin
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Ivan Bunin received the 1933 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing." Aristocrat to the core, Bunin somehow remained connected to the land and people and keenly felt their pulse of life. His acute observations resulted in the accurate and unforgettable characters who populated his writing. His love for punctuation and punctilious choice of words is legendary. Reading Bunin's stories is one of the best ways to understand the mysterious Russian soul and begin to understand one of Russia's greatest periods of literature.
By: Ivan Bunin
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An Unknown Friend
- By: Ivan Bunin
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Ivan Bunin received the 1933 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing." Aristocrat to the core, Bunin somehow remained connected to the land and people and keenly felt their pulse of life. His acute observations resulted in the accurate and unforgettable characters who populated his writing. His love for punctuation and punctilious choice of words is legendary. Reading Bunin's stories is one of the best ways to understand the mysterious Russian soul and begin to understand one of Russia's greatest periods of literature.
By: Ivan Bunin
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The Gentleman from San Francisco
- By: Ivan Bunin
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
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Ivan Bunin received the 1933 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing." Aristocrat to the core, Bunin somehow remained connected to the land and people and keenly felt their pulse of life. His acute observations resulted in the accurate and unforgettable characters who populated his writing. His love for punctuation and punctilious choice of words is legendary. Reading Bunin's stories is one of the best ways to understand the mysterious Russian soul and begin to understand one of Russia's greatest periods of literature.
By: Ivan Bunin
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Gentle Breathing
- By: Ivan Bunin
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 18 mins
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Ivan Bunin received the 1933 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing." Aristocrat to the core, Bunin somehow remained connected to the land and people and keenly felt their pulse of life. His acute observations resulted in the accurate and unforgettable characters who populated his writing. His love for punctuation and punctilious choice of words is legendary. Reading Bunin's stories is one of the best ways to understand the mysterious Russian soul and begin to understand one of Russia's greatest periods of literature.
By: Ivan Bunin
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Anna Karenina
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 39 hrs and 30 mins
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Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Many writers consider Anna Karenina the greatest work of literature ever, and Tolstoy himself called it his first true novel. It was initially released in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. A complex novel in eight parts, with more than a dozen major characters, it is spread over more than 800 pages (depending on the translation and publisher), typically contained in two volumes.
By: Leo Tolstoy
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First Love and Other Stories
- By: Ivan Turgenev
- Narrated by: Mike Hogan, Joe Phoenix, Richard Williams
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
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Ivan Turgenev was an outstanding writer of the 19th century, a corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in the category of Russian language and literature. He was the author of philosophical and psychological poems, short stories, short novels, and novellas. Throughout his work, he delves into the themes of Russian intelligentsia and peasant life, showcasing mastery in creating psychological portraits.
By: Ivan Turgenev
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First Love
- By: Ivan Turgenev
- Narrated by: Mike Hogan
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
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First Love by Ivan Turgenev - a story about real feelings and play. Main character works are passionately in love with the princess, who older than him, but for her a careless young man - just an object of ridicule. Other famous works, such as "Asya", "Fathers and Sons", "A Nest of Noblemen", "Biryuk", "On the Eve", "Mumu", "Fire at Sea", "The Wayside Inn", "The Watch", "Three Portraits", "A Strange Story", "The Meeting", etc.
By: Ivan Turgenev
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The District Doctor
- By: Ivan Turgenev
- Narrated by: Joe Phoenix
- Length: 26 mins
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The short story The District Doctor by Turgenev, written in 1848, is part of the "Sportsman's Sketches" cycle. It tells the tale of a hopeless love between a dying girl from a noble family and a humble county doctor. Other famous works, such as "Asya", "Fathers and Sons", "A Nest of Noblemen", "Biryuk", "On the Eve", "Mumu","Fire at Sea", "The Wayside Inn", "The Watch", "Three Portraits", "A Strange Story", "The Meeting", etc.
By: Ivan Turgenev