The Possessed: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Possessed, 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 Possessed by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. (Translated by Constance Garnett.) Read in English by Expatriate Although titled The Possessed in the initial English translation, Dostoyevsky scholars and later translations favour the titles The Devils or Demons. An extremely political book, Demons is a testimonial of life in Imperial Russia in the late 19th century. As the revolutionary democrats begin to rise in Russia, different ideologies begin to collide. Dostoyevsky casts a critical eye on both the radical idealists, portraying their ideas and ideological foundation as demonic, and the conservative establishment's ineptitude in dealing with those ideas and their social consequences. This form of intellectual conservativism tied to the Slavophile movement of Dostoyevsky's day, called Pochvennichestvo, is seen to have continued on into its modern manifestation in individuals like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Dostoyevsky's novels focus on the idea that utopias and positivist ideas, in being utilitarian, were unrealistic and unobtainable. The book has five primary characters representing different ideologies. By exploring their differing philosophies, Dostoyevsky describes the political chaos seen in 19th century Russia. - Summary by Wikipedia

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Possessed
• Author credits: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 81
• Listed recording duration: 25:37:01

Catalogue topics

• philosophy
• Russian Literature
• radicalism

Opening tracks: first 24 of 81

1. 01 - Pt. 1, Ch. 01: Introductory (Sec. 1-2) — 19:51
2. 02 - Pt. 1, Ch. 01: Introductory (Sec. 3-5) — 21:43
3. 03 - Pt. 1, Ch. 01: Introductory (Sec. 6-7) — 16:23
4. 04 - Pt. 1, Ch. 01: Introductory (Sec. 8) — 13:47
5. 05 - Pt. 1, Ch. 01: Introductory (Sec. 9) — 14:23
6. 06 - Pt. 1, Ch. 02: Prince Harry\ — 13:30
7. 07 - Pt. 1, Ch. 02: Prince Harry\ — 11:05
8. 08 - Pt. 1, Ch. 02: Prince Harry\ — 11:07
9. 09 - Pt. 1, Ch. 02: Prince Harry\ — 20:12
10. 10 - Pt. 1, Ch. 02: Prince Harry\ — 19:10
11. 11 - Pt. 1, Ch. 02: Prince Harry\ — 22:48
12. 12 - Pt. 1, Ch. 03: The Sins of Others (Sec. 1-2) — 18:28
13. 13 - Pt. 1, Ch. 03: The Sins of Others (Sec. 3-4) — 18:15
14. 14 - Pt. 1, Ch. 03: The Sins of Others (Sec. 5-6) — 21:21
15. 15 - Pt. 1, Ch. 03: The Sins of Others (Sec. 7) — 14:39
16. 16 - Pt. 1, Ch. 03: The Sins of Others (Sec. 8) — 11:58
17. 17 - Pt. 1, Ch. 03: The Sins of Others (Sec. 9-10) — 17:03
18. 18 - Pt. 1, Ch. 04: The Cripple (Sec. 1-2) — 18:53
19. 19 - Pt. 1, Ch. 04: The Cripple (Sec. 3-4) — 16:30
20. 20 - Pt. 1, Ch. 04: The Cripple (Sec. 5-6) — 20:53
21. 21 - Pt. 1, Ch. 04: The Cripple (Sec. 7) — 20:02
22. 22 - Pt. 1, Ch. 05: The Subtle Serpent (Sec. 1-3) — 26:25
23. 23 - Pt. 1, Ch. 05: The Subtle Serpent (Sec. 4) — 20:08
24. 24 - Pt. 1, Ch. 05: The Subtle Serpent (Sec. 5) — 12:29

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