Kashtanka: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Kashtanka, credited to Anton Chekhov, 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 Kashtanka, by Anton Chekhov. Read by Grant Hurlock. "Kashtanka," a shaggy-dog story penned by Anton Chekhov in seven parts and first published in 1887, relates the experiences of its eponymous heroine, a fox-faced, reddish dachshund-mix, whose name means 'little chestnut.' After her detestation of music causes her to become separated from the carpenter with whose family she had been living, Kashtanka finds herself taken up by an unusual vaudevillian and goes to live among an assortment of other intelligent animals, each of whom is observed with the characteristic empathy and humor that stamp Chekhov's work. (Summary by Grant Hurlock)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Kashtanka
• Author credits: Anton Chekhov
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 3
• Listed recording duration: 48:59

Catalogue topics

• animals
• children
• fiction
• humor
• short-stories
• dog
• Chekhov
• Vaudeville

Track guide

1. 1 - Parts 1-3 — 16:10
2. 2 - Parts 4-6 — 19:41
3. 3 - Part 7 — 13:11

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Source and rights

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