The Dark: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Dark, credited to Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev, 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 Dark by Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev. (Translated by L. A. Magnus.) Read in English by Lee Smalley The Dark is a novella about a desperate young man, a “terrorist and nihilist”, trying to avoid arrest by taking refuge in a brothel. The story focuses on his unfolding relationship with a prostitute in the brothel and the internal conflict which torments him. The author, Leonid Andreyev, an acclaimed Russian playwright and writer of short fiction, was noted for the darkness in his work. This book was published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. ( Lee Smalley)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Dark
• Author credits: Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 5
• Listed recording duration: 1:56:51

Catalogue topics

• action
• relationship
• prostitute
• russian terrorist

Track guide

1. 01 - Section 1 — 23:59
2. 02 - Section 2 — 24:16
3. 03 - Section 3 — 23:22
4. 04 - Section 4 — 23:44
5. 05 - Section 5 — 21:30

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