Bestsellers
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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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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 678
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 527
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Story5 out of 5 stars 520
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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5 out of 5 stars
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An innovative and fresh listening experience
- By Scott Garrioch on 01-14-21
By: George Saunders
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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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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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...
By: Leo Tolstoy
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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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Overall4 out of 5 stars 242
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 203
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Story4 out of 5 stars 204
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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5 out of 5 stars
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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 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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Overall5 out of 5 stars 456
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 401
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Story5 out of 5 stars 399
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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5 out of 5 stars
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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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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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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5 out of 5 stars
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war and peace
- By L. Kerr on 12-19-24
By: Vasily Grossman, 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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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2
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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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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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 678
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 527
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Story5 out of 5 stars 520
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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5 out of 5 stars
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An innovative and fresh listening experience
- By Scott Garrioch on 01-14-21
By: George Saunders
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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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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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...
By: Leo Tolstoy
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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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Overall4 out of 5 stars 242
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 203
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Story4 out of 5 stars 204
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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5 out of 5 stars
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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 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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Overall5 out of 5 stars 456
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 401
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Story5 out of 5 stars 399
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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5 out of 5 stars
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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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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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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5 out of 5 stars
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war and peace
- By L. Kerr on 12-19-24
By: Vasily Grossman, 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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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2
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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Illuminations
- Essays and Reflections
- By: Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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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5 out of 5 stars
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finally
- By Anonymous User on 12-08-21
By: Walter Benjamin, and others
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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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Overall4 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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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1 out of 5 stars
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Voices
- By Courtney Duvall on 01-18-23
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Anna Karenina
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Kate Lock
- Length: 40 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 173
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 148
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Story4 out of 5 stars 147
Anna Karenina is beautiful, married to a successful man, and has a son whom she adores....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful reading, but some volume issues
- By Tad Davis on 12-17-10
By: Leo Tolstoy
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Капитанская дочка
- By: Александр Пушкин
- Narrated by: Артем Цыпин
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10
Вам предлагается аудиопрочтение знаменитой повести великого русского...
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brief and right to the point
- By Guitar player on 12-16-24
By: Александр Пушкин
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Guerre et Paix 4
- By: Léon Tolstoï
- Narrated by: Éric Herson-Macarel
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story5 out of 5 stars 11
L'immensité de la steppe, l'avidité et la fatuité française précipitent la Grande Armée vers la défaite. Koutousov, en fin stratège, ne fait qu'accompagner la...
By: Léon Tolstoï
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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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Overall4 out of 5 stars 187
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Story4 out of 5 stars 155
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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4 out of 5 stars
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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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Преступление и наказание
- By: Федор Достоевский
- Narrated by: Всеволод Кузнецов
- Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 26
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 26
Еще один вариант прочтения бессмертного романа Федора Михайловича...
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5 out of 5 stars
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best reading performance
- By Dmitriy Yadrov on 12-20-24
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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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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 321
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 284
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 281
"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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5 out of 5 stars
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Unbelievable
- By jennifer van fleet on 10-01-22
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The Brothers Karamazov
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: Jason Smith
- Length: 34 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance1 out of 5 stars 1
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Story1 out of 5 stars 1
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a profound philosophical and psychological novel that explores deep questions of faith, doubt, free will, and...
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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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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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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3 out of 5 stars
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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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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
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12
BBC radio productions of Dostoevsky's masterpieces, plus selected shorter fiction and bonus programmes exploring his life and work....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Awful. Just read/listen to the actual books
- By wahwah on 05-02-22
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Идиот
- By: Федор Достоевский
- Narrated by: Вячеслав Манылов
- Length: 40 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Story0 out of 5 stars 0
Идиот — произведение классика русской литературы и одного из лучших романистов мирового уровня Ф. М. Достоевского (1821–1881). Автор преследовал цель...
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Мертвые души
- By: Николай Гоголь
- Narrated by: Александр Клюквин
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 24
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story5 out of 5 stars 22
Н.В. Гоголь начал работу над своим главным трудом - "Мертвые души" в 1835 году...
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great Russian classic
- By yegorius on 12-20-23
By: Николай Гоголь
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Alyosha the Pot
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5
Alyosha the Pot is a short story written by Leo Tolstoy (1905) about the life and death of a simple, uncomplaining worker. It was published after Tolstoy's...
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent narration
- By Lisa F. on 04-25-25
By: Leo Tolstoy
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Notes from a Dead House
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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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4 out of 5 stars
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FYODORange is the New Black
- By Darwin8u on 07-13-15
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Пиковая дама
- By: Александр Сергеевич Пушкин
- Narrated by: Александр Клюквин
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
Александр Сергеевич Пушкин, безусловно, был великим поэтом и писателем. Но кроме...
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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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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 29
"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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5 out of 5 stars
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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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Hadji Murat
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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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Anna Karenina
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 36 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 932
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 535
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Story4 out of 5 stars 531
The touching picture of Anna Aarkadyevna Karenina's slow disintegration has fascinated readers for well over a century....
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5 out of 5 stars
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a good supplement
- By Victoria on 06-20-03
By: Leo Tolstoy
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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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Overall4 out of 5 stars 127
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 103
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Story4 out of 5 stars 104
A work of timeless, bittersweet beauty about the fading fortunes of an aristocratic Russian family....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderfully Vibrant Production
- By Andre on 11-18-11
By: Anton Chekhov
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Три сестры
- By: Антон Чехов
- Narrated by: Вячеслав Манылов
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Три сестры — одно из самых известных произведений Антона Павловича Чехова (1860–1904), известного драматурга и классика мировой литературы. В центре сюжета...
By: Антон Чехов
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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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Overall5 out of 5 stars 20
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story5 out of 5 stars 18
Братья Карамазовы - последний роман Ф. М. Достоевского, который автор...
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1 out of 5 stars
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Some technical issues
- By Andrii Chemerysov on 10-19-21
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Мастер и Маргарита
- By: Михаил Булгаков
- Narrated by: Вячеслав Манылов
- Length: 22 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Мастер и Маргарита — последняя книга Булгакова, которую считают его духовным завещанием. Сочетая в одном произведении реальный мир и фантастику, сатирическое...
By: Михаил Булгаков
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A morte de Ivan Ilitch
- By: Lev Tolstói, Mariana Beltrão, Daniela Thomas, and others
- Narrated by: Juliana Perdigão
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 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
Tendo como ponto de partida o falecimento do protagonista e o seu velório, esta novela narra a vida de Ivan Ilitch até seus momentos finais...
By: Lev Tolstói, and others