The Crocodile: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Crocodile by Fyodor Dostoyevsky: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 4 original MP3 tracks, 1:59:46 running time and a link to listen.
The Crocodile, credited to Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 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 Crocodile by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Read in English by Tony Addison Ivan Matveich, the most ordinary person you might hope to meet, is swallowed alive by a crocodile at a sideshow. Finding life inside the belly of the beast quite comfortable, he makes a home for himself there. His disquisitions on the state of the world from inside the crocodile make him quite a name for himself; while all the while the discussion rages outside as to whether the beast is going to be cut open to release him or not, its value as a sideshow attraction having massively increased owing to the presence of the human voice buried inside it. One of Jorge Luis Borges' seven most favourite stories. - Summary by Tony Addison
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Crocodile
- Author credits: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 4
- Listed recording duration: 1:59:46
Catalogue topics
- black comedy
- social satire
- absurdist humour
Track guide
- 01 - Chapter One — 32:28
- 02 - Chapter Two — 24:28
- 03 - Chapter Three — 37:49
- 04 - Chapter Four — 25:01
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