The Three Sisters: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Three Sisters, 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 dramatic recording of The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov. Three Sisters is a naturalistic play about the decay of the privileged class in Russia and the search for meaning in the modern world. It describes the lives and aspirations of the Prozorov family, the three sisters (Olga, Masha, and Irina) and their brother Andrei. They are a family dissatisfied and frustrated with their present existence. The sisters are refined and cultured young women who grew up in urban Moscow; however for the past eleven years they have been living in a small provincial town. Moscow is a major symbolic element: the sisters are always dreaming of it and constantly express their desire to return. They identify Moscow with their happiness, and thus to them it represents the perfect life. However as the play develops Moscow never materializes and they all see their dreams recede further and further. Meaning never presents itself and they are forced to seek it out for themselves. (Summary by wikipedia) Cast: ANDREY SERGEYEVITCH PROSOROV - Joe Spy NATALIA IVANOVA (NATASHA), his fiancée, later his wife - Availle OLGA - Elizabeth Klett MASHA - Arielle Lipshaw IRINA - Elizabeth Barr FEODOR ILITCH KULIGIN, high school teacher, married to MASHA - mb ALEXANDER IGNATEYEVITCH VERSHININ, lieutenant-colonel in charge of a battery - Bruce Pirie NICOLAI LVOVITCH TUZENBACH, baron, lieutenant in the army - John Fricker VASSILI VASSILEVITCH SOLENI, captain - Denny Sayers IVAN ROMANOVITCH CHEBUTIKIN, army doctor - Algy Pug ALEXEY PETROVITCH FEDOTIK, sub-lieutenant - Raken VLADIMIR CARLOVITCH RODE, sub-lieutenant - Elizabeth Klett FERAPONT, door-keeper at local council offices, an old man - David Lawrence ANFISA, nurse - Ana Narrator/Stage Directions - Mary Herndon Bell Audio edited by Arielle Lipshaw

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Three Sisters
• Author credits: Anton Chekhov
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 2:21:35

Catalogue topics

• fistorical fiction
• philosophy

Track guide

1. 01 - Act 1 — 39:11
2. 02 - Act 2 — 36:19
3. 03 - Act 3 — 30:50
4. 04 - Act 4 — 35:16

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