A Slav Soul and Other Stories: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Slav Soul and Other Stories, credited to Aleksandr Kuprin, 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 Slav Soul and Other Stories by Aleksandr Kuprin. Read in English by Lee Smalley Novelist and short story writer Alexandr Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938) was one of the most widely read authors of his time. Nabokov called him the Russian Kipling for his stories about people who are often "neurotic and vulnerable". Many films and radio programs based on his works have been produced. These 15 short stories, typically “artful studies of abnormal states of mind”, were selected from various sources. The collection includes “Easter Day” (a chance meeting); “The Picture” (intense envy); “Hamlet” (a fading actor); “The Last Word” (a psychotic confession); “Dogs' Happiness” (strays in jeopardy); “A Clump of Lilacs” (a wife’s ingenuity); “Anathema” (a curse); and “Tempting Providence” (homeward bound). “The White Poodle" and "The Elephant”, appropriate for all readers, were intended by the author to be read aloud to children. ( Lee Smalley)

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Slav Soul and Other Stories
• Author credits: Aleksandr Kuprin
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 6:53:23

Catalogue topics

• russian short stories
• character-driven
• neuroses
• abnormal states of mind
• serious

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction — 10:28
2. 01 - A Slav Soul — 23:48
3. 02 - The Song and the Dance — 13:23
4. 03 - Easter Day — 28:50
5. 04 - The Idiot — 20:18
6. 05 - The Picture — 35:26
7. 06 - Hamlet — 36:21
8. 07 - Mechanical Justice — 24:16
9. 08 - The Last Word — 13:41
10. 09 - The White Poodle, Part 1 — 44:51
11. 10 - The White Poodle, Part 2 — 37:04
12. 11 - The Elephant — 24:51
13. 12 - Dogs' Happiness — 19:22
14. 13 - A Clump Of Lilacs — 13:16
15. 14 - Anathema — 22:17
16. 15 - Tempting Providence — 25:11
17. 16 - Cain — 20:00

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