The Black Monk: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Black Monk, 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 The Black Monk by Anton Chekhov. (Translated by Robert Edward Crozier Long.) Read in English by Daniel Davison Aspiring academic Andrei Kovrin, while summering in the countryside per the advice of a physician, is haunted by the apparition of a black monk that appears only to him and encourages him in his intellectual pursuits. Although Kovrin is the only one who can see the apparition, the monk assures him that, even if he were a creation of the imagination, he would still be a thing of nature and consequently real. Chekhov uses this vehicle for a gothic exploration into scholarly obsession and madness. - Summary by Daniel Davison

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Black Monk
• Author credits: Anton Chekhov
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 2
• Listed recording duration: 1:14:42

Catalogue topics

• horror
• Gothic
• chekhov
• Russian Literature
• gothic fiction
• anton chekhov
• black monk
• psychological horror

Track guide

1. 01 - Part 1: Chapters 1-5 — 42:31
2. 02 - Part 2: Chapters 6-9 — 32:11

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