Bestsellers
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
- Abridged
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Overall3,352
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Performance2,908
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Story2,896
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time “It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature...
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Mandatory reading in Russia, not USA. Why?
- By Arlon James on 11-07-20
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The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 25 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,078
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Performance927
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Story923
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne...
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Should be required reading in US schools
- By Richard on 01-01-21
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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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Overall721
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Performance563
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Story556
From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been...
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Go Deeper
- By Brent Armstrong on 10-20-21
By: George Saunders
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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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Overall43
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Performance41
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Story41
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.
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Stalingrad
- By Brent Armstrong on 06-02-25
By: Vasily Grossman, and others
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Illuminations
- Essays and Reflections
- By: Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall41
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Performance34
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Story33
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 on 12-08-21
By: Walter Benjamin, and others
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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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Overall473
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Performance412
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Story410
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time 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. “The greatest and most...
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I wish Jordan B. Peterson could have narrated
- By Lukas Kubik on 11-17-20
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
- Abridged
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Overall3,352
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Performance2,908
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Story2,896
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time “It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature...
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Mandatory reading in Russia, not USA. Why?
- By Arlon James on 11-07-20
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The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 25 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,078
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Performance927
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Story923
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne...
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Should be required reading in US schools
- By Richard on 01-01-21
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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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Overall721
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Performance563
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Story556
From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been...
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Go Deeper
- By Brent Armstrong on 10-20-21
By: George Saunders
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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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Overall43
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Performance41
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Story41
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.
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Stalingrad
- By Brent Armstrong on 06-02-25
By: Vasily Grossman, and others
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Illuminations
- Essays and Reflections
- By: Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall41
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Performance34
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Story33
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 on 12-08-21
By: Walter Benjamin, and others
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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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Overall473
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Performance412
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Story410
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time 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. “The greatest and most...
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I wish Jordan B. Peterson could have narrated
- By Lukas Kubik on 11-17-20
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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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Overall252
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Performance213
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Story214
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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Invitation to a Beheading
- By: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall192
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Performance161
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Story160
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: Zach Barrett
- Length: 67 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance11
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Story11
War and Peace is a literary work by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy that mixes fictional narrative with chapters on history and philosophy. It was first...
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garbage AI voice, not well done, don't buy
- By Travis Waddington on 05-27-25
By: Leo Tolstoy
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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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Overall98
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Performance92
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Story92
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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Important but not entertaining
- By Robert Lynch on 05-17-25
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The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 21 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall453
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Performance412
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Story409
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time Volume 3 of the Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece: Solzhenitsyn's moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own release after eight years. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. “The greatest and...
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A Must listen
- By Ron on 11-18-20
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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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Overall146
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Performance133
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Story131
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 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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Overall36
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Performance31
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Story31
"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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Brothers Karamazov
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett - translator
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 19 hrs and 8 mins
- Abridged
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Overall431
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Performance370
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Story371
The Brothers Karamazov is Dostoevsky's crowning life work and stands among the best novels in world literature. The book probes the possible roles of four brothers in the unresolved murder of their father, Fyodor Karamazov. At the same time, it carefully explores the personalities and...
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An expert abridgement
- By Tad Davis on 04-26-13
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, 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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Overall64
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Performance51
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Story49
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 Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol (Vintage Classics)
- By: Nikolai Gogol
- Narrated by: Peter Batchelor
- Length: 17 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
Using, or rather mimicking, traditional forms of storytelling, Gogol created stories that are complete within themselves and only tangentially connected to a meaning or moral. His work belongs to the school of invention, where each twist and turn of the narrative is a surprise unfettered by...
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Gogol's Brilliant, but the recording is messy
- By Nom de Guerre on 10-08-24
By: Nikolai Gogol
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The Oak and the Larch
- A Forest History of Russia and Its Empires
- By: Sophie Pinkham
- Narrated by: Abigail Reno
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Story4
Russia's forests account for nearly one-fifth of the world's wooded lands. The Oak and the Larch is the first-ever English-language exploration of this vast expanse.
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Informative But Needs PDF
- By Andy R. Bobyarchick on 03-27-26
By: Sophie Pinkham
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The Cherry Orchard
- By: Anton Chekhov
- Narrated by: Marsha Mason, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall127
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Performance103
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Story104
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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Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall536
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Performance456
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Story454
After narrowly avoiding a firing squad when he was just twenty-eight years old, Dostoevsky never took things lightly....
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Author doesn’t actually like Dostoevsky
- By Customer on 07-11-21
By: Paul Strathern
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Notes from Underground
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall322
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Performance285
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Story282
"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....
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Unbelievable
- By jennifer van fleet on 10-01-22
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Pnin
- By: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrated by: Luís David García Márquez
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
Pnin está considerada como "la más deliciosa de las novelas de Nabokov" (G. M. Hyde), "la más inmediatamente atractiva" (Laurie Clancy) y, posiblemente,...
By: Vladimir Nabokov
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance14
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Story14
BBC radio productions of Dostoevsky's masterpieces, plus selected shorter fiction and bonus programmes exploring his life and work. One of the most important and influential Russian writers of the 19th century, Fyodor Dostoevsky is admired worldwide for his great realist novels, exploring...
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Awful. Just read/listen to the actual books
- By wahwah on 05-02-22
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The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov
- By: Andrea Pitzer
- Narrated by: Susan Boyce
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall50
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Performance44
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Story45
A startling and revelatory examination of Nabokov’s life and works—notably Pale Fire and Lolita—bringing new insight into one of the twentieth century’s most enigmatic authors....
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difficult to listen to
- By anna on 08-10-19
By: Andrea Pitzer
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Dostoevsky in Love
- An Intimate Life
- By: Alex Christofi
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance8
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Story8
In Dostoevsky in Love, Alex Christofi weaves carefully chosen excerpts of the author's work with the historical context to form an illuminating and often surprising whole....
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I love the book and narrator
- By Amy on 04-23-22
By: Alex Christofi
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The Modern Scholar
- The Giants of Russian Literature: Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov
- By: Prof. Liza Knapp
- Narrated by: Liza Knapp
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall98
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Performance67
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Story66
In this course, Knapp acquaints you with the authors, their lives and their times, and their most important works....
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beautifully wrought
- By D.P. on 09-25-11
By: Prof. Liza Knapp
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Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth in his early twenties....
By: Leo Tolstoy
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The Enchanted Wanderer
- And Other Stories
- By: Nikolai Leskov, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 23 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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Story9
Written over the course of Leskov's career, each story in The Enchanted Wanderer elucidates the very essence of the human condition; themes of love, despair, loneliness, and revenge are explored against the backdrop of 19th-century working-class Russia....
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Leskov is the master of Russian short stories. Dos
- By Ben on 05-02-20
By: Nikolai Leskov, 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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Overall60
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Performance47
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Story47
From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov: a lavish volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time. Anton Chekhov left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none more so than short...
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Better alternatives for Chekhov
- By Carol V. Macvey on 03-04-21
By: Anton Chekhov, and others
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Пьесы
- By: Антон Павлович Чехов
- Narrated by: Станислав Концевич
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
Антон Павлович Чехов - один из величайших писателей и драматургов не только...
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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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Overall21
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Performance19
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Story19
Братья Карамазовы - последний роман Ф. М. Достоевского, который автор...
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Some technical issues
- By Andrii Chemerysov on 10-19-21