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Title: Vishnevyj sad [The Cherry Orchard]

Author: Anton Chekhov

Narrator: Sergey Kirsanov

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 01-07-14

Publisher: Cdcom Publishing

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

V pervuju minutu ja dazhe ne ponjal, o chem idet rech', no Anton Pavlovich prodolzhal smakovat' nazvanie p'esy, napiraja na nezhnyj zvuk "e" v slove "Vishnevyj", tochno starajas' s ego pomoshh'ju oblaskat' prezhnjuju krasivuju, no teper' nenuzhnuju zhizn', kotoruju on so slezami razrushil v svoej p'ese. Na jetot raz ja ponjal tonkost': "Vishnevyj sad" - jeto delovoj, kommercheskij sad, prinosjashhij dohod. Takoj sad nuzhen i teper'.

No "Vishnevyj sad" dohoda ne prinosit, on hranit v sebe i v svoej cvetushhej belizne pojeziju byloj barskoj zhizni. Takoj sad rastet i cvetet dlja prihoti, dlja glaz izbalovannyh jestetov. Zhal' unichtozhat' ego, a nado, tak kak process jekonomicheskogo razvitija stranj trebuet jetogo.K. S. Stanislavskij

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Title: Audioteatr Sergeja Jurskogo 2

Author: Ivan Bunin, Anton Chehov

Narrator: Sergey Jursky

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-06-14

Publisher: Cdcom Publishing

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Pervoe otdelenieA. P. ChehovRasskazy: Maska, Pisatel', Shilo v meshke, Koshmar Iz predislovija v pervom otdelenii a Chehov togda zhil, i videl, i ne mog prostit' muchitel'nuju poshlost' i podlost' jetoj zhizni on smehom, ironiej vyvernul na iznanku jetu vneshne blagopoluchnuju, samodovol'nuju zhizn' i pokazal ejo gor'kuju obratnuju storonu. S ulybkoj, delikatno, no neprimirimo zagovoril on o tom, chto sovest', sovest' nado imet'Vtoroe otdelenieI.A BuninaRasskazy: Novyj god, Solnechnyj udar, Legkoe dyhanie,Iz predislovija vo vtorom otdeleniiRossija, zima, vesna, leto, osen', muzhchina, zhenshhina vot sem' not iz kotoryh skladyvaet svoju izumitel'nuju muzyku slova Ivan Alekseevich Bunin. Muzyka jeta beskonechna i nepovtorima, kak beskonechno nepovtorimy kazhdoe iz jetih javlenij.

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Title: Gordost' i predubezhdenie

Author: Jane Austen

Narrator: Irina Vorobyeva

Format: Abridged

Length: 9 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 01-02-14

Publisher: Cdcom Publishing

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

"Gordost' i predubezhdenie" - roman, nepodvlastnyj vremeni.Porazitel'nyj po glubine i psihologizmu, napisannyj legkim prozrachnym jazykom, on povestvuet o sud'be molodoj zhenshhiny i ee ljubvi - nelegkoj, polnoj neuverennosti, oshibok i somnenij. Jeta kniga byla samoj ljubimoj dlja mnogih pokolenij zhenshhin vsego mira. Eju zachityvalis' v aristokraticheskih gostinyh, literaturnyh salonah i sel'skih usad'bah, ee prjatali ot roditelej gimnazistki, dlja kotoryh roman Dzhejn Ostin stanovilsja bukval'no "shkoloj zhizni".I sejchas jeta kniga, naveki voshedshaja v zolotoj fond mirovoj literatury, ne utratila ni kapli svoego nepodrazhaemogo ocharovanija, izyskannosti i bleska...

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Members Reviews:

Great for Language Comprehension Practice

I like to listen to books in other languages for language practice.

This works best if it is a book that I have already listened to/read in English,

as then the material is more familiar.

For new languages, I will often try to listen to a book in parallel:

say, 15 minutes of English, then 15 minutes of the other languages, etc.

As of yet, there is a fairly limited selection of foreign language audiobooks available in the U.S. store, and an even smaller selection that are available in both English and a variety of other languages.

(And, for some reason, the Spanish ones seem often to be abridged, which makes them much less useful for this type of "rosetta stone" parallel listening practice.)

But it is slowly getting better.

Congratulations to Audible for slowly increasing its foreign language material,

and here is hoping that it will continue to do so.

And perhaps some books in Mandarin and Arabic also?

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Title: The Necklace

Author: Guy de Maupassant

Narrator: Mike Vendetti

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-10-13

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

A beautiful woman imagines she is married below her station. In an effort to make her happy, her husband brings home an invitation to a ball attended by the upper crust of Paris society. To his chagrin, she is only disappointed, and explains she has nothing to wear to the ball. The husband sacrifices his savings to buy her a dress. She has no jewelry, but she has a wealthy friend who will lend her a beautiful accoutrement to accompany the beautiful dress. She dances madly, drunk with pleasure: her time has come. She is the belle of the ball. It is the happiest night of her life, until they arrive at home and the necklace is missing

Members Reviews:

Purchased this as a gift.

This was sent as a gift to a friend's son who is in prison. He stated "it's like all the french books I've read - mostly misery and despair"

I give it 3 stars based on his report - I haven't read it!

Beautiful book for adults

Gorgeous paintings/illustrations but not a book for kids. It's a sad complicated story.

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Title: Konjok-Gorbunok i drugie skazki

Author: Nikolaj Garin-Mihajlovskij, Vsevolod Garshin, Vladimir Dal', Petr Ershov, Vladimir Odoevskij, Konstantin Ushinskij

Narrator: Natalia Gracheva, Olga Zvereva, Vadim Maksimov, Kirill Radzig, Elena Chebaturkina

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-18-13

Publisher: Cdcom Publishing

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Soderzhanie:Ershov P.P. "Konjok-Gorbunok"; Garin-Mihajlovskij N.G. "Znaem!";Garshin V.M. "Ljagushka-puteshestvennica"; Dal' V.I. "U tebja u samogo svoj um", "Pro mysh' zubastuju, da pro vorob'ja bogatogo", "Luchshij pevchij", "Zhuravl' i caplja", "Vojna gribov s jagodami", "Vorona", "Starik-godovik";Odoevskij V.F. "Gorodok v tabakerke"; Ushinskij K. D. "Bishka", "Gus' i zhuravl'", "Veter i solnce", "Lisa Patrikeevna", "Dva kozlika", "Dva pluga"

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Title: Tri sestry [Three Sisters]

Author: Anton Chehov

Narrator: Anastasia Georgievskaya, Claudia Yelanskaya, Pavel Massalski, Vasily Orlov, Victor Stanitsyn, Angelina Stepanova, Alla Tarasova

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-05-13

Publisher: Cdcom Publishing

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Spektakl' po odnoimennoi piese.Moskovski Khudozhestvenniy Akademicheskiy teatr USSR imeni M.Gor'kovo. Avtor postanovki V.Nemirovich-Danchenko Tri Sestry - odna iz samykh izvestnykh pies A.P. Chekhova. Tri generalskiye dochki - Olga, Masha i Irina Prozorovy, chye detstvo proshlo v Moskve, zabrosheny sud'boy v zakholustniy gorodok. Ponachalu im kazhetsya, chto vperedi - radostnaya i napolnennaya cmyslom zhisn', schastlivaya lyubov, vozvrasheniye v stolitsu. No postepenno skuka i odnoobraziye provintsial'noi zhisni razbivayut v prakh vse ih mecht.

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Title: Dante's Vita Nuova

Author: Dante Alighieri

Narrator: Tim Lundeen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-13

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 26 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

In this new edition Musa views Dante's intention as one of cruel and comic commentary on the shallowness and self-pity of his protagonist, who only occasionally glimpses the true nature of love.

"...the explication de texte which accompanies [Musa's] translation is instructively novel, always admirable..." his present work offers English listeners a lengthy appraisal which should figure in future scholarly discussions." (Choice)

Members Reviews:

Good classic; totally misleading description

Any additional comments?

Great classic if you're looking for it (and you know what you're getting in tootherwise it may be monotonous). However, Audible's description mentions the author's commentary on the text as being particularly good, but none of it is even included. That's why I bought this! Disappointed. Plus, the narrator really sounds like he's readingnot as good as most of the audiobook readers I'm used to, but acceptable nevertheless.

A Classic

I love the drama and performance of this. I recommend it to anyone who is a fan of classic literature. Audible 20 Review Sweepstakes Entry

What a love poem!!

What made the experience of listening to Dante's Vita Nuova the most enjoyable?

Dante's verse is, as always, a joy to listen to. While it may be inaccessible in many cases, on the face of it alone, to have such passion with which to dedicate such a volume of work to one person is quite a thing in itself. So the shear magnitude of the writing process, the significance of what Dante went through to write this book, made it a compelling book.

What did you like best about this story?

There are many ways to see and feel love. Dante shows us how to 'live' love. These were, of course, different times, but everyone has experienced the emotional turbulence of trying to obtain the attention of the one you love, and therefore, one finds relevance in every poem.

What three words best describe Tim Lundeens performance?

Cold. Unenthusiastic. Effortless

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Love is life

Any additional comments?

This is clearly a classic book. Dante is obsessed with Beatrice and this is the published pining affection he holds for her. While that might not sound particularly appealing, remember that Dante is a master of verse and rhetoric. This captivating look into the process of desire may be much more than you bargained for.

The narration lacks the passion that is evident in the book. This is always going to be a difficult endeavor, but it sounds like Lundeen is simply reading the words, rather than being part of your journey.

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Title: Land

Author: Liam O'Flaherty

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-08-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

O'Flaherty's 13th novel is about the Irish land uprisings during the time of Parnell. Set in Co. Mayo during the early days of the 19th-century Land War, this mighty epic of the Irish Land and People tells of the struggles between the British landlords and the Irish tenantry.

Liam OFlaherty aka Liam Ó Flaithearta (1896-1984) was a significant Irish novelist and short story writer and a major figure in the Irish literary renaissance. OFlaherty was the son of Maidhc Ó Flaithearta and Maggie Ganley of Gort na gCapall.

In 1908, at the age of 12, he went to Rockwell College. This was followed by enrollments at Holy Cross and University College, Dublin. He did not attend the first two schools for long. He had intended joining the priesthood, but in 1917 he left school and joined the Irish Guards under the name Bill Ganly. He served on the Western Front, where he was injured, and it is possible that the shell shock he suffered may have been responsible for the mental illness that became apparent in 1933.

After the war OFlaherty left Ireland and moved to the United States, where he lived in Hollywood for a short time. The well-known director John Ford, a cousin, later turned Ó Flaitheartas novel The Informer into a film. Many of his works have the common theme of nature and Ireland. He was a distinguished short story writer, and some his best work in that genre was in Irish.

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Titel: Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg II

Autor:: Theodor Fontane

Erzähler: Gert Westphal

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 9 hrs and 34 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 05-31-13

Herausgeber: SWR Edition

Kategorien: Classics, European Literature

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Im zweiten Teil beginnt die Wanderung im Oderbruch bei Gussow. Dann geht es nach Friedersdorf, Küstrin, Tamsel, Zorndorf, Fürstenwalde, an die Havel bis nach Werder. Weiterhin berichtet er auch die Adelsgeschlechter Ziethen, Marwitz und Katte. Regie: Peterpaul Schulz

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Title: Les Misérables [Russian Edition]

Author: Victor Hugo

Narrator: Andrey Abrikosov, Tsetsiliya Mansurova, Elena Korovina, Vyacheslav Dugin, Anatoly Katsynsky, Mikhail Zharkovsky, Yakov Smolensky

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-13

Publisher: IDDK

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Spektakl' teatra im. Vahtangova po romanu Viktora Gjugo (1802-1882) Otverzhennye. Eeto proizvedenie o zhizni ljudej, otvergnutyh obshhestvom. O chelovecheskoj zhestokosti i nespravedlivosti zakona, o sile i stradanijah, o miloserdii i torzhestve dobra nad zlom, o bor'be za svoi prava i za svoe schast'e.

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