Classic Russian Dramas Starring Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Michael Redgrave and Trevor Howard, Volume 2
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Laurence Olivier
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Trevor Howard
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Fully restored and remastered, Heritage Media presents the greatest of vintage artists in classic dramas from the literature of Russia. Here is the legendary Laurence Olivier starring in ‘The Inspector General’, adapted from the original tale by Nikolai Gogol and Trevor Howard starring in 'Judgment' adapted from the original tale by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Theatre Royal is a unique series of classic radio dramas produced in the 1950's by the late Harry Alan Towers. Starring the leading theatre artists of the day it is the only series of radio dramas in which Laurence Olivier ever appeared. He was joined by Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud, Orson Welles, Robert Morley, John Mills, Michael Redgrave, Trevor Howard, Robert Donut, Alec Guinness and Margaret Lockwood.
Over the Years, Theatre Royal has received a glittering array of accolades, including: “vivid, tense, and compressed.”( Classic radio)
“Craft, like character, ages well.”(Daily Telegraph)
“Great fun to listen to and, as radio history, they are unsurpassed.” (Sunday Telegraph)
“Voices like these justify the Golden Days tag. We won't hear their like again.” (Sunday Times)
“A must for archive fans. The excitement of vintage radio drama with strong storylines.” (Radio Times.)
©2011 Heritage Media Ltd (P)2011 Heritage Media LtdEditorial reviews
Stage and screen greats Laurence Olivier and Trevor Howard serve as primary performers in these full-cast radio adaptations of two classic Russian short stories, "The Inspector General" by Nikolai Gogol and "Judgment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Even a passing familiarity with these acting legends should convince you to give this sparkling audiobook a chance. Olivier and Howard, alongside a slew of classic stars including Alec Guinness, Margaret Lockwood, and Orson Welles, bring a truly astounding depth to these stories, engaging easily with their costars to bring these Russian classics to life.
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- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 805
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 709
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 703
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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4 out of 5 stars
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Gravity of odds and the frailty of human hope
- By Darwin8u on 01-16-13
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A Raw Youth
- The Adolescent
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance2 out of 5 stars 1
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Story3 out of 5 stars 1
A Raw Youth (sometimes translated as The Adolescent) is a most chaotic and for non-Russians one of the more confusing of Dostoevsky’s major novels, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov. Dostoevsky assumed his readers were familiar with the intellectual debates from the 1840s through the 1860s, when dramatic changes, the liberation of the serfs and liberal idealism gave way to anarchism and terrorism. The first person narrator, Arkady, describes his coming of age, his self doubts, his emerging sensuality and his search for roots in family. It is as it ...
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2 out of 5 stars
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Difficult to listen to
- By Christian on 01-25-25
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The Adolescent
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 28 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 49
The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky's novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a naive 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father's wrongdoing and the desire to win his love. He travels to St. Petersburg to confront the father he barely knows, inspired by an inchoate dream of communion and armed with a mysterious document that he believes gives him power over others.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Oft-Forgotten Dostoevsky Gem
- By Ben on 02-09-20
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, and others
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The Idiot (Dramatized)
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: Edward Asner, Kate Asner, Angela Bettis, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 20
David Fishelson has transformed Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot into a spellbinding drama that illuminates the titanic novel. In The Idiot, meet the kindly, childlike Prince Myshkin, as he returns to the decadent social whirl of 1860s St. Petersburg. The two most beautiful, sought-after women in the town compete for his affections, in a duel that grows increasingly dangerous.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Straight and to the point dramatic narrative of the Idiot.
- By CypherDaimon on 07-23-24
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The Possessed
- (Devils)
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
A new revised and abridged translation of Dostoevsky's 1872 novel, The Possessed (also known in English as Devils or Demons). Perhaps the most complicated and for non-Russians the most confusing of Dostoevsky’s major novels, as much as the novel reflected its times, it still is relevant today exploring the danger of idealism and liberalism turning increasingly to violence when it lacks spiritual direction. Dostoevsky’s questions and novel are as relevant today as they were almost 150 years ago. This translated edition of The Possessed has been revised and abridged by Thomas Beyer so ...