The Duel: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Duel, 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 Duel by Anton Chekhov. (Translated by Constance Garnett.) Read in English by Expatriate Known for his plays and short stories, Anton Chekhov also wrote a series of novellas, astonishing for their psychological complexity and compelling human portraiture. In The Duel, the wastrel and libertine Laevsky absconds to the Caucasus with another man's wife, Nadyezhda Fyodorovna. While there, he forms several acquaintanceships with a colorful array of characters: Von Koren the zoologist, Samoylenko the doctor, and Pobyedov the giddy deacon. Before long, both Laevsky and his mistress succeed in offending local society by their dissolute lifestyles, leading to the inevitable insult, challenge, and duel. Duels having been exploited as plot twists throughout the writings of Tolstoy, Turgenev, and Dostoyevsky (all ironically alluded to by the author), the challenge for Chekhov is to make it work one more time in 1891, at a time when duelling had nearly died out in both society and literature. The result is a richly layered, utterly original, philosophically and psychologically ambiguous story of human love and friendship. ( summary by Expatriate)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Duel
• Author credits: Anton Chekhov
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 21
• Listed recording duration: 4:00:48

Catalogue topics

• chekhov
• Russian Literature

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter 01 — 18:54
2. 02 - Chapter 02 — 11:24
3. 03 - Chapter 03 — 15:50
4. 04 - Chapter 04 — 10:58
5. 05 - Chapter 05 — 13:16
6. 06 - Chapter 06 — 16:18
7. 07 - Chapter 07 — 5:45
8. 08 - Chapter 08 — 4:50
9. 09 - Chapter 09 — 13:37
10. 10 - Chapter 10 — 14:44
11. 11 - Chapter 11 — 12:25
12. 12 - Chapter 12 — 10:43
13. 13 - Chapter 13 — 5:40
14. 14 - Chapter 14 — 6:55
15. 15 - Chapter 15 — 16:39
16. 16 - Chapter 16 — 13:34
17. 17 - Chapter 17 — 11:31
18. 18 - Chapter 18 — 9:17
19. 19 - Chapter 19 — 12:12
20. 20 - Chapter 20 — 5:42
21. 21 - Chapter 21 — 10:34

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