The Idiot (Part 01 and 02): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Idiot (Part 01 and 02), 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 Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Part 01 and 02)Read by Martin Geeson The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Russia to claim his inheritance and to find a place in healthy human society. The teeming St Petersburg community he enters is far from receptive to an innocent like himself, despite some early successes and relentless pursuit by grotesque fortune-hunters. His naive gaucheries give rise to extreme reactions among his new acquaintance, ranging from anguished protectiveness to mockery and contempt. But even before reaching the city, during the memorable train journey that opens the novel, he has encountered the demonic Rogozhin, the son of a wealthy merchant - who is in thrall to the equally doomed Nastasia Filippovna: beautiful, capricious and destructively neurotic, she joins with the two weirdly contrasted men in a spiralling dance of death... (Summary by Martin Geeson)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Idiot (Part 01 and 02)
• Author credits: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 28
• Listed recording duration: 15:42:26

Catalogue topics

• idiot
• dostoyevsky
• fiction
• novel

Opening tracks: first 24 of 28

1. 01 - Part I, Chapter 1 — 29:39
2. 02 - Part I, Chapter 2 — 28:46
3. 03 - Part I, Chapter 3 — 35:33
4. 04 - Part I, Chapter 4 — 40:32
5. 05 - Part I, Chapter 5 — 45:34
6. 06 - Part I, Chapter 6 — 28:44
7. 07 - Part I, Chapter 7 — 36:44
8. 08 - Part I, Chapter 8 — 38:09
9. 09 - Part I, Chapter 9 — 23:44
10. 10 - Part I, Chapter 9 — 20:22
11. 11 - Part I, Chapter 11 — 20:18
12. 12 - Part I, Chapter 12 — 31:34
13. 13 - Part I, Chapter 13 — 28:28
14. 14 - Part I, Chapter 14 — 29:29
15. 15 - Part I, Chapter 15 — 27:36
16. 16 - Part I, Chapter 16 — 36:58
17. 17 - Part II, Chapter 1 — 29:00
18. 18 - Part II, Chapter 2 — 41:32
19. 19 - Part II, Chapter XIX — 42:59
20. 20 - Part II, Chapter 4 — 16:52
21. 21 - Part II, Chapter 5 — 40:35
22. 22 - Part II, Chapter 6 — 41:29
23. 23 - Part II, Chapter 7 — 28:01
24. 24 - Part II, Chapter 8 — 54:05

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