A Lear of the Steppes, etc.: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Lear of the Steppes, etc., 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 Lear of the Steppes, etc. by Ivan Turgenev. (Translated by Constance Garnett.) Read in English by Lee Smalley This book contains three novellas by one of the major writers of Russian literature. The first, A LEAR OF THE STEPPES, is a brilliant re-imagining of Shakespeare’s play King Lear, wherein a larger-than-life father makes a life-altering decision with consequences unforeseen by him. FAUST begins at Section 11. In a series of letters to a friend the writer recounts his chance meeting with a married woman whom he had known years earlier when both were single and committed to each other. The ensuing events are vividly revealed in the letters. Section 19 introduces ACIA, the final “ETC.” of the book’s title. Turgenev poignantly portrays the twists and turns of human emotions in this moving psychological portrait of two people who fall in love. Leo Tolstoy believed Acia to be one of Turgenev's greatest stories. (Lee Smalley)

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Lear of the Steppes, etc.
• Author credits: Ivan Turgenev
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 29
• Listed recording duration: 7:16:44

Catalogue topics

• tragedy
• romance
• love story
• russian fiction
• turgenev novellas

Opening tracks: first 24 of 29

1. 00 - Introduction — 15:18
2. 01 - A Lear of the Steppes 1 - 3 — 16:07
3. 02 - A Lear of the Steppes Parts 4 - 6 — 13:22
4. 03 - A Lear of the Steppes Parts 7 - 9 — 12:08
5. 04 - A Lear of the Steppes Parts 10 - 12 — 25:43
6. 05 - A Lear of the Steppes Parts 13 - 15 — 23:12
7. 06 - A Lear of the Steppes Parts 16 - 18 — 21:23
8. 07 - A Lear of the Steppes Parts 19 - 21 — 15:10
9. 08 - A Lear of the Steppes Parts 22 - 24 — 23:55
10. 09 - A Lear of the Steppes Parts 25 - 27 — 21:55
11. 10 - A Lear of the Steppes Parts 28 - 31 — 22:28
12. 11 - Faust First Letter — 14:42
13. 12 - Faust Second Letter — 16:42
14. 13 - Faust Third Letter — 10:03
15. 14 - Faust Fourth Letter — 16:48
16. 15 - Faust Fifth Letter — 8:34
17. 16 - Faust Sixth Letter — 12:24
18. 17 - Faust Seventh & Eighth Letters — 5:48
19. 18 - Faust Ninth Letter — 23:09
20. 19 - Acia Parts 1 and 2 — 20:05
21. 20 - Acia Parts 3 and 4 — 15:34
22. 21 - Acia Parts 5 and 6 — 9:03
23. 22 - Acia Parts 7 and 8 — 18:21
24. 23 - Acia Parts 9 and 10 — 10:34

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