The Lady With the Dog: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Lady With the Dog, 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 Lady With The Dog, by Anton chekhov. Anton Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practiced as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress." Chekhov had at first written stories only for financial gain, but as his artistic ambition grew, he made formal innovations which have influenced the evolution of the modern short story. His originality consists in an early use of the stream-of-consciousness technique, later adopted by James Joyce and other modernists, combined with a disavowal of the moral finality of traditional story structure. He made no apologies for the difficulties this posed to readers, insisting that the role of an artist was to ask questions, not to answer them. This is a collection of 7 of his insightful short stories about the human condition and include, beside the title story, A Doctor's Visit; An Upheaval; Ionitch; and The Husband which are best known. (Summary by Wikipedia and Phil Chenevert)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Lady With the Dog
• Author credits: Anton Chekhov
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 7
• Listed recording duration: 3:25:57

Catalogue topics

• chekhov
• short stories
• russian

Track guide

1. 1 - The Lady With the Dog — 47:19
2. 2 - A Doctor's Visit — 33:07
3. 3 - An Upheaval — 18:28
4. 4 - Ionitch — 46:45
5. 5 - The Head of the Family — 10:38
6. 6 - Volodya — 37:46
7. 7 - The Husband — 11:56

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