Best Russian Short Stories: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Best Russian Short Stories, credited to Thomas Seltzer, editor, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Best Russian Short Stories, edited by Thomas Seltzer. Read by volunteer readers. In this collection of Russian stories, editor and compiler Thomas Seltzer selects from a range of the best examples of 19th and early 20th century Russian literature. As a survey of famous authors at the height of the powers, as well as some writers who have been unjustly neglected, this anthology is indispensable. (Summary by Nullifidian) "Everything is subordinated to two main requirements--humanitarian ideals and fidelity to life. This is the secret of the marvellous simplicity of Russian literary art."--THOMAS SELTZER. Stories by Aleksandr Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Vladimir Korolenko, Vsevolod Garshin, Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Sologub, Ignatii Potapenko, Sergei Semyonov, Maxim Gorky, Leonid Andreyev, Mikhail Artsybashev, and Aleksandr Kuprin.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Best Russian Short Stories
• Author credits: Thomas Seltzer, editor
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 10:33:20

Catalogue topics

• Russia
• short stories

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction — 25:27
2. 01 - The Queen of Spades, Part I — 29:37
3. 02 - The Queen of Spades, Part II — 17:44
4. 03 - The Cloak, Part I — 45:21
5. 04 - The Cloak, Part II — 41:00
6. 05 - The District Doctor — 28:01
7. 06 - The Christmas Tree and the Wedding — 17:51
8. 07 - God Sees the Truth, But Waits — 18:31
9. 08 - How a Muzhik Fed Two Officials — 19:45
10. 09 - The Shades, a Phantasy; Part I — 18:33
11. 10 - The Shades, a Phantasy; Part II — 46:14
12. 11 - The Signal — 24:38
13. 12 - The Darling — 43:36
14. 13 - The Bet — 19:27
15. 14 - Vanka — 11:57
16. 15 - Hide and Seek — 24:52
17. 16 - Dethroned — 43:31
18. 17 - The Servant — 12:28
19. 18 - One Autumn Night — 19:34
20. 19 - Her Lover — 14:55
21. 20 - Lazarus (Eleazar) — 49:25
22. 21 - The Revolutionist — 22:10
23. 22 - The Outrage - A True Story — 38:49

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