Futility: A Novel on Russian Themes: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Futility: A Novel on Russian Themes, credited to William Alexander Gerhardi, 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 Futility: A Novel on Russian Themes by William Alexander Gerhardi. Read in English by Margaret Espaillat. From the preface written by Edith Wharton: Then I fell upon Futility. Some one said: “It's another new novel about Russia” –and every one of my eager feelers curled up in a tight knot of refusal. But . . . I read on, amused, moved, absorbed, till the tale and the journey ended together. This, it seems to me, is the most striking quality of Mr. Gerhardi's book: that he has (even in this, his first venture) enough of the true novelist's “objectivity” to focus the two so utterly alien races to whom he belongs almost equally, by birth and bringing-up – the English and the Russian – to sympathize with both, and to depict them for us as they see each other, with the play of their mutual reactions illuminating and animating them all. - Summary from the preface by Edith Wharton

Recording facts

• Recording title: Futility: A Novel on Russian Themes
• Author credits: William Alexander Gerhardi
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 6:50:40

Catalogue topics

• Russia

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 5:06
2. 01 - Part 1, Chapters 1-5 — 44:34
3. 02 - Part 1, Chapters 6-8 — 30:36
4. 03 - Part 1, Chapters 9-11 — 40:31
5. 04 - Part 2 — 40:01
6. 05 - Part 3, Chapters 1-2 — 39:53
7. 06 - Part 3, Chapters 3-4 — 48:47
8. 07 - Part 3, Chapters 5-7 — 34:59
9. 08 - Part 3, Chapters 8-10 — 47:19
10. 09 - Part 3, Chapters 11-12 — 26:00
11. 10 - Part 4, Chapters 1-3 — 28:35
12. 11 - Part 4, Chapters 4-6 — 24:18

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