A Sportsman's Sketches: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Sportsman's Sketches, 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 Sportsman's Sketches by Ivan Turgenev. (Translated by Constance Garnett.) Read in English by tovarisch A Sportsman's Sketches (Russian: Записки охотника; also known as The Hunting Sketches and Sketches from a Hunter's Album) was an 1852 collection of short stories by Ivan Turgenev. It was the first major writing that gained him recognition. He wrote this collection of short stories based on his own observations while hunting at his mother’s estate at Spasskoye, where he learned of the abuse of the peasants and the injustices of the Russian system that constrained them. The frequent abuse of Turgenev by his mother certainly had an effect on this work. The stories were first published in The Contemporary with each story separate before appearing in 1852 in book form. He was about to give up writing when the first story, "Khor and Kalinich," was well received. This work is part of the Russian realist tradition in that the narrator is usually an uncommitted observer of the people he meets. - Summary by Wikipedia

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Sportsman's Sketches
• Author credits: Ivan Turgenev
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 16:34:26

Catalogue topics

• Hunting
• Russia
• peasant
• hunter
• sportsman
• russian realism
• surfdom

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 01 - HOR AND KALINITCH — 33:48
2. 02 - YERMOLAÏ AND THE MILLER'S WIFE — 30:15
3. 03 - RASPBERRY SPRING — 26:16
4. 04 - THE DISTRICT DOCTOR — 28:14
5. 05 - MY NEIGHBOUR RADILOV — 21:29
6. 06 - THE PEASANT PROPRIETOR OVSYANIKOV — 53:24
7. 07 - LGOV — 28:58
8. 08 - BYEZHIN PRAIRIE — 55:23
9. 09 - KASSYAN OF FAIR SPRINGS — 52:37
10. 10 - THE AGENT — 39:29
11. 11 - THE COUNTING-HOUSE — 43:58
12. 12 - BIRYUK — 21:25
13. 13 - TWO COUNTRY GENTLEMEN — 25:23
14. 14 - LEBEDYAN — 32:33
15. 15 - TATYANA BORISSOVNA AND HER NEPHEW — 33:45
16. 16 - DEATH — 33:04
17. 17 - THE SINGERS — 50:44
18. 18 - PIOTR PETROVITCH KARATAEV — 42:07
19. 19 - THE TRYST — 25:13
20. 20 - THE HAMLET OF THE SHTCHIGRI DISTRICT — 1:13:55
21. 21 - TCHERTOP-HANOV AND NEDOPYUSKIN — 50:17
22. 22 - THE END OF TCHERTOP-HANOV, Part I — 53:45
23. 23 - THE END OF TCHERTOP-HANOV, Part II — 36:28
24. 24 - A LIVING RELIC — 41:07

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