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ID: 217566

Title: Comrades

Author: Maxim Gorky

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:37:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-15-14

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Maxim Gorky, whose real name was Alexey Maximovich Pyeshkov, is probably the best-known late-19th-century Russian fiction writer among the English speaking world. His pen-name translates as Maxim the Bitter, which attitude is reflected in many of his works.

Much of his writing reflects his own terrible life experiences and suffering. It is in his short stories that he reveals his true genius. "Comrades" reveals an ironic humour in its conception and is one of Gorky's lighter tales. A peasant policeman is dispatched to escort a vagrant without papers to the nearest magistrate, a considerable distance away. As the two talk on the journey, it becomes clear to the listener...and finally to the policeman...the real identity of the vagrant.

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ID: 217590

Title: Ghost of the Engineers' Castle

Author: Nikolai Leskov

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:33:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-15-14

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (1831 1895) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and journalist. He was a favourite of Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky among others. Leskov is praised for his innovative techniques and his ability to create a vivid picture of contemporary Russian society.

The Ghost of the Engineers' Castle is a ghost story in which his storytelling skills are displayed to perfection. Scene by scene the tension builds up until the listener's hair is standing on end. The young cadets who live in the ancient castle of the late Emperor Paul, now known as the Engineers' Castle, are afraid of the many ghosts rumoured to walk the corridors at night. They are also fearful of the nebulous "grey man" who appears at dusk and will exact terrible revenge on them. So when they are given the task of holding watch at night over the coffin of the deceased General Lamnovsky, a spiteful man who himself would have every motivation to return from the dead and avenge himself on the naughty cadets, they are very afraid. One of them does show bravado in front of his comrades... but even he is petrified at the awful apparition which then appears.

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ID: 217573

Title: Criminal from Lost Honour

Author: Friedrich Schiller

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:56:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-15-14

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) was arguably Germany's most famous poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright.

The Criminal from Lost Honour is written in the form of a crime report, and is notable as an early attempt at psychological analysis of the criminal Christian Wolf. In particular, Schiller delves into the impact of early experiences, rejections, and humiliations on the descent on the man from honest publican to criminal and murderer. But despite the psychological analysis, Schiller's racy fast-paced prose as he narrates how Wolf is catapulted from one turning point in his life to the next, draws the listener irresistably into the story and grips their attention right through to the last astonishing scene.

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ID: 217587

Title: Long Exile

Author: Count Leo Tolstoy

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:21:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-15-14

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Leo Tolstoy is widely recognized as one of the world's greatest novelists and short story writers and a master of realistic fiction.

He is equally known for his complex and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, developed following a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became known for his deep moral thinking and social reforms.

In "The Long Exile", Tolstoy tells the story of a man who is imprisoned for a crime he did not commit, but who gradually becomes aware that the experience has been sent to bring him closer to God and prepare him for the next life. After 26 years in prison, a crisis occurs. A new convict arrives, who turns out to be the real perpetrator of the crime for which our prisoner was wrongly convicted. Moreover, our prisoner has an opportunity to have his nemesis punished. This moral dilemma is the axis on which the story turns.

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ID: 217574

Title: Chorus Girl

Author: Anton Chekhov

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:14:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-15-14

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) is generally considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history.

The Chorus Girl tells the tale of a mistress who is confronted unexpectedly by her lover's wife. In the meantime the cheating husband is hiding in the next room. The dialogue between the two women is classic of Chekhov's genius... he captures a person's entire character and soul within a few paragraphs and then catapults them into a crisis from which they emerge changed.

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ID: 217576

Title: Bundle of Letters

Author: Maurus Jokai

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:27:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-15-14

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Mór Jókai (1825-1904), also known as Maurus Jokai, was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist.

A celebrated doctor receives a visit from a new patient with a most peculiar ailment. He has an excruciatingly painful spot on his hand. But on examination, he can find nothing wrong with the patient at all. He assumes it is a psychosomatic illness, but the patient is insistant that the area of his hand be surgically removed. When the doctor declines this, the patient attempts to cut out the area himself, and the doctor is obliged to complete the operation after all.

Apparently cured, and endlessly grateful, the patient leaves. But a few weeks later the condition has recurred, and the doctor must operate on the healthy hand again. A few weeks later, a letter arrives from the patient. The condition has recurred again... but this time the patient is unwilling to try to cure it through surgery again. He explains the background of his strange malady.... and a very peculiar and gripping tale it is....

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ID: 217597

Title: Self-Sacrificing Rabbit

Author: Nicolai Schedrin

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:15:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-15-14

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Nicolai Schedrin was the nom de plume of Michail Saltickov (1826-1889), who was one of the greatest Russian storytellers who dealt with the theme of social ideals and struggles. He was a satirist of great force and remarkable invention. He uses allegories and great wit to lash out at complacency, self-indulgence and the cruelty of administrative powers.

In The Self-Sacrificing Rabbit Schedrin creates a masterful tale full of barbed sarcasm for those who are too weak to oppose evil.

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ID: 217582

Title: Pistol-Shot

Author: Alexander Pushkin

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:33:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-15-14

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 1837) was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.

He was notoriously sensitive about his own personal honour and is believed to have fought as many as twenty-nine duels... the last of which proved fatal for him. A duel is the crux of his masterful short story The Pistol-Shot - but it is a duel with a difference. It starts out normally enough... an insult, a challenge, a meeting with pistols at dawn. But when the first shot misses, the insolent nonchalence of the first shooter (who goes on eating cherries while is adversary takes aim) prompts the other dueller to delay taking his shot until such a time as shall suit him. He is determined to pick a moment when death will be most unwelcome and inconvenient for his adversary. One day a letter arrives for him... and he knows that the moment has come.

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ID: 217570

Title: Candle

Author: Count Leo Tolstoy

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:19:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-15-14

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer and philosopher who primarily wrote novels and short stories. He was a master of realistic fiction and is widely considered one of the world's greatest novelists.

Tolstoy's literal interpretation of the teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance are represented in his short story ""A Candle"", which tells the story of a group of peasants suffering under a tyrannical overseer. His beatings are so severe as to be sometimes fatal and when he orders the serfs to plough the fields on Easter Sunday, a discussion begins as to whether they should assassinate the brutal steward. The peasants are divided on the subject. One group, led by Vasili are determined to murder the bully. Another group, swayed by Piotr, believe it is best to bear their sufferings rather than to risk their souls.

But neither group can possibly foresee the strange and terrible events that occur when Easter Sunday arrives.

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ID: 217564

Title: Immensee

Author: Theodor Storm

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:08:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-15-14

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Theodor Storm (1817 - 1888) was a North German writer, widely recognized as one of the most important authors of 19th-century German Literary realism. His semi-autobiographical novella, Immensee, is the work that made him famous and remains to this day one of his most widely read. Its rich and multi-layered symbolism along with its deep sentimentality make it an intriguing and touching tale.

On the surface, Immensee is a simple love story, of an old man, Reinhardt Werner, remembering Elisabeth, the lost sweetheart of his youth, who married his best friend, Erich. Reinhardt had neglected their relationship when he had gone away to university, and after two years when he failed to write to Elisabeth, she gave up waiting and accepted a marriage proposal from Erich, a wealthy young farmer with a fine house on the shores of the Immensee. There are hints that Reinhadt may have had other affairs as a student, but much in the story is implicit rather than explicit, leaving the listener to speculate and ponder on what was or might have been.

On visiting Erich and Elisabeth years later, Reinhardt discovers that their doomed love still beats in both breasts, but now it is a passion which can only cause them pain and suffering. One night he sees a white water lily out on the lake and tries to swim out to it. But when he gets there, the roots threaten to entangle him and he extricates himself with difficulty and swims away. But how can he extricate himself from his love for Elisabeth?

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