A House of Gentlefolk: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A House of Gentlefolk, credited to Ivan Turgenev, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of A House of Gentlefolk by Ivan Turgenev. (Translated by Constance Garnett.) Read in English by tovarisch The novel titled in Russian "Дворянское Гнездо" (Dvoryanskoye Gnezdo, sometimes translated as Home of the Gentry, A Nest of the Gentlefolk, A Nest of the Gentry) is considered a sequel to "Rudin". It is the story of the protagonist Fyodor Ivanych Lavretsky, a son of a nobleman and a serf, brought up at his family's country estate home by a severe maiden aunt, often thought to be based on Turgenev's own mother, who was known for her cruelty. - Summary by tovarisch based on Wikipedia article

Recording facts

• Recording title: A House of Gentlefolk
• Author credits: Ivan Turgenev
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 7:48:56

Catalogue topics

• Russian Literature

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 01 - Chapters I and II — 16:44
2. 02 - Chapters III and IV — 14:24
3. 03 - Chapters V and VI — 16:19
4. 04 - Chapter VII — 11:30
5. 05 - Chapter VIII — 20:57
6. 06 - Chapter IX — 10:15
7. 07 - Chapters X and XI — 17:12
8. 08 - Chapters XII through XIV — 16:27
9. 09 - Chapters XV and XVI — 24:38
10. 10 - Chapters XVII and XVIII — 20:05
11. 11 - Chapters XIX and XX — 15:06
12. 12 - Chapters XXI through XXIII — 21:26
13. 13 - Chapters XXIV and XXV — 24:35
14. 14 - Chapters XXVI and XXVII — 19:54
15. 15 - Chapters XXVIII and XXIX — 21:45
16. 16 - Chapters XXX through XXXII — 22:31
17. 17 - Chapters XXXIII and XXXIV — 23:24
18. 18 - Chapters XXXV and XXXVI — 25:39
19. 19 - Chapters XXXVII and XXXVIII — 19:48
20. 20 - Chapter XXXIX — 18:34
21. 21 - Chapter XL — 16:53
22. 22 - Chapters XLI and XLII — 18:57
23. 23 - Chapter XLIII — 13:05
24. 24 - Chapters XLIV and XLV — 19:22

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