Uncle's Dream: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Uncle's Dream by Fyodor Dostoyevsky: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 15 original MP3 tracks, 6:04:46 running time and a link to listen.
Uncle's Dream, 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 Uncle's Dream by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. (Translated by Frederick Whishaw.) Read in English by Greg Giordano. Uncle’s Dream by Fyodor Dostoyevsky was written following his five year exile to Siberia where he was sent to serve in a hard labor camp. Following what could only have been a harrowing and harsh existence in Russia’s infamous prison for political and social prisoners, one would expect Dostoyevsky’s work to have been dark and bitter. Rather, [i]Uncle’s Dream [/i]is a humorous and yet scathing commentary on Russian provincial high-society. The story of elderly Prince K. who comes to visit the town of Mordasoff, lorded over by the imperious Maria Alexandrovna, is one of love, hate, deceit and greed. Standing reluctantly at Maria Alexandrovna’s side is her haughty daughter, Zina, who has few friends of her own. The prince’s companion and distant relative is Paul Mosgliakoff, suitor to Zina. Maria Alexandrovna and Zina are the central characters in the charade to lure the senile prince into a marriage of convenience (not for him but for Maria Alexandrovna and Zina). They, and a host of lesser characters, are brought to life in full color by Dostoyevsky’s masterful wordsmithing. [i]Uncle’s Dream [/i]is a must listen for any fan of not only Dostoyevsky, but of Russian literature and the “goings-on” of the Russian “upper crust.” (Summary by Greg Giordano)
Recording facts
- Recording title: Uncle's Dream
- Author credits: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 15
- Listed recording duration: 6:04:46
Catalogue topics
- English
- novella
- classic
- Russian
- dramatic
- fyodor
- dostoevesky
- uncle'sdream
Track guide
- 01 - CHAPTER I. — 15:32
- 02 - CHAPTER II. — 12:34
- 03 - CHAPTER III. — 22:20
- 04 - CHAPTER IV. — 27:48
- 05 - CHAPTER V. — 34:14
- 06 - CHAPTER VI. — 22:44
- 07 - CHAPTER VII. — 17:08
- 08 - CHAPTER VIII. — 25:25
- 09 - CHAPTER IX. — 32:01
- 10 - CHAPTER X. — 21:25
- 11 - CHAPTER XI. — 23:27
- 12 - CHAPTER XII. — 21:21
- 13 - CHAPTER XIII. — 38:05
- 14 - CHAPTER XIV. — 18:43
- 15 - CHAPTER XV. — 31:59
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