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Title: Invasion, Power of Childhood, Korney Vasilyev [Russian Edition]

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Narrator: Ilya Bobylev

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-06-12

Publisher: IDDK

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

This book contains the stories of "Korney Vasiliev", "Invasion", and "Power of Childhood", all by the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910).

Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

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Title: Anna Karenina (Dramatised)

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Narrator: Teresa Gallagher, Toby Stephens

Format: Original Recording

Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-12

Publisher: BBC Worldwide Limited

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 22 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Tolstoy's story of one woman's fate is brought powerfully to life in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation starring Teresa Gallagher and Toby Stephens.

Anna Karenina enjoys a privileged and aristrocratic lifestyle as the wife of influential government official Alexy Karenin. Yet their ten-year marriage is devoid of tenderness, and when Anna falls in love with the handsome Count Vronsky they embark upon a deep and passionate affair. Reflecting the social conditions of the era in which it was written, Tolstoy's masterpiece sets a doomed love story against a harsh and unforgiving backdrop.

Members Reviews:

Excellent dramatization & production by BBC

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes, entertaining rendition of classic book.

What did you like best about this story?

Intelligently told

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Plot and acting on this audiobook held your interest.

Any additional comments?

Realistic characters moving toward their fate.

Enjoyable

What did you like most about Anna Karenina (Dramatised)?

What I liked most it's how the story has been "Dramatised", very impressive voices, very well played.

Utterly enjoyable

Beautifully narrated, great love story. I was instantly drawn into the story, could picture every scene and felt Anna's turmoil. Very well done cast!

sad yet very well narrated story

Tolstoy's use of language is very colourful and descriptive. Story represents an era with narrative and the characters fits well into its time.

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Title: Anna Karenina

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Narrator: Diana Quick

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-19-12

Publisher: The Copyright Group

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form, and it addresses the very nature of society at all levels - of destiny, death, human relationships and the irreconcilable contradictions of existence. It ends tragically, and there is much that evokes despair, yet set beside this is an abounding joy in life's many ephemeral pleasures, and a profusion of comic relief.

Members Reviews:

Ridiculously abridged

While I thought the reading was excellent, the book was butchered down to the point that the story was illogical. Poor Tolstoy! His beautiful and complex masterpiece distilled down to the point that you roll your eyes over Anna's mania rather than feeling sympathy.

Aside: it is so much more palatable to hear a woman feign a man's voice than the reverse.

Don't bother.

There are abridged versions, then there are comic book interpretations, which is the case here.

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Title: The Meeting 300 Years Later [Russian Edition]

Author: Aleksey Tolstoy

Narrator: Tatyana Levitskaya

Format: Abridged

Length: 1 hr and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-17-12

Publisher: IDDK

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

"The Meeting 300 Years Later" was written by the great Aleksey Tolstory (1817 - 1875) in 1839 but the story was not published until after his death. It is an example of Tolstoy's interest in mysticism and spiritualism.

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Title: Stories [Russian Edition]

Author: Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

Narrator: Dmitry Savin

Format: Abridged

Length: 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-17-12

Publisher: IDDK

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

This book contains stories by the great Russian writer Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826 - 1889). These satirical tales present a phantasmagoric image of Russian society of the 19th century.

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Title: Black Hen, or Living Underground [Russian Edition]

Author: Antony Pogorelsky

Narrator: Anna Byankina

Format: Abridged

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 07-13-12

Publisher: IDDK

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Black Hen, or Living Underground, the first book about childhood in Russian literature, was published in 1829 by Pogorelsky Anthony (real name: Alexey Perovsky, 1787-1836). It brought him fame, though he originally wrote this classic fairytale for the entertainment of his nephew.

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Title: The Moonstone

Author: Wilkie Collins

Narrator: Steven Pacey

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-11-12

Publisher: Copyright Group

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her 18th birthday. That very night the priceless stone is stolen again, and when Sergeant Cuff is brought in to investigate the crime, he soon realizes that no one in Rachels household is above suspicion.

Hailed by T. S. Eliot as "the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels", The Moonstone is a marvellously taut and intricate tale of mystery, in which facts and memory can prove treacherous, and not everyone is as they first appear.

Members Reviews:

Interesting and unexpected twists to this mystery!

There were so many aspects I thoroughly enjoyed in this book. The mystery has some great twists and turns as well as the various unique characters! The book is written from several character perspectives, which is fun for the most part. One character in particular though, was not so fun to listen too. She just went on and on and from an exhausting and close-mindedness religious mindset .....

The first character reminded me so much of "Mr. Carson" on Downton Abbey that I really enjoyed reading anything from him.

Since this was written in the latter half of the 1800's, I anticipated a tougher read given how much are language has changed since then, but I was quite relieved and delighted that it was very easy to read.

Charming look into the 19th century

One of the earliest crime novels, the story of The Moonstone is told in succession by witnesses who were present at various points in the story. Although the narrative takes a while to get started and fully engage the reader, the result is ultimately a charming view into the 19th century with characters that would be at home in a Dickens tale. The resolution of the mystery is a bit strained but if one willingly suspends disbelief just a bit it's fairly satisfying. Collins, a good friend of Dickens, wrote many of his works as serials in magazines. This results is his making the stories more wordy than necessary to propel the plot (I think they got paid by the word!), But if you like Dickens, you'll easily forgive this. These fellows didn't live long enough to profit off the movie rights, and an author has to eat, after all.

Good read for a long trip or over the summer

A great "whodunit" mystery novel. I thought I would hate reading this since it was an older book, but I was into it. The switch between narrators was slightly annoying and a little abrupt, but there was some comic relief and it helped you get a bigger picture than Betteredge could do by himself. It is longer but worth it.

Now I see where Agatha Christie got her ideas

The book reminds me a lot of an Agatha Christie type mystery, but she took Collins' characters and plot ideas to a whole other level. Still, I've enjoyed the language and style of writing in this book. Much more satisfying mystery than the more recent bloody, sexy novels of today. I just ordered his other book "Woman in White" but haven't started it yet.

mystery of the moonstone

This was an interesting "mystery" of a stolen jewel, the curse attached to it, and its disappearance one rainy night.

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Title: Stories. Compilation [Russian Edition]

Author: Alexander Kuprin

Narrator: Veronika Kakhe

Format: Abridged

Length: 1 hr and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-29-12

Publisher: IDDK

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

This book of outstanding Russian writer Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938) includes his great stories about horses.

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Title: Gray Car and Other Stories

Author: Alexander Grin

Narrator: Vladimir Golitsyn, Andrey Gusev

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-12-12

Publisher: Agentstvo, Ltd.

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Gray Car and Other Stories is a collection of short stories from Russian author Alexander Grin (1880-1932). While Grin suffered through prison sentences and multiple exiles during his lifetime, his fiction often features fantasy worlds far more romantic and enticing than the harsh realities in which he lived.

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Title: Gladiators and Other Stories

Author: Alexander Grin

Narrator: Vladimir Golitsyn

Format: Abridged

Length: 1 hr and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-25-12

Publisher: Agentstvo, Ltd.

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Gladiators and Other Stories is a collection of short stories from Russian author Alexander Grin (1880-1932). While Grin suffered through prison sentences and multiple exiles during his lifetime, his fiction often features fantasy worlds far more romantic and enticing than the harsh realities in which he lived.

Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.