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Title: The Cossacks

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Narrator: Walter Zimmerman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-08-04

Publisher: Jimcin Recordings

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 39 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The Cossacks is one of the finest depictions of Cossack society in Russian literature. Against that primitive background, Tolstoy examines two psychological problems. The first is that of a young man who wants to love and wants to fit into society. The other is that of the difficulty of a primitive society in accepting the domination of a higher culture. This is a brilliant exploration of the themes of individuality and social identity.

©1982 Jimcin Recordings

Editorial Reviews:

Juxtaposing simple life with urban sophistication, The Cossacks is Tolstoy's thoughtful depiction of Cossack society in the 19th century. Originally written by Tolstoy to pay off a gambling debt, this 1982 recording by audiobook performer Walter Zimmerman convincingly captures Russian nobleman Dmitri Olenin's naïve striving to understand life among simpler folk. Though the recording shows its age, Zimmerman's spirited delivery more than compensates for the thin audio. Stirring and thought-provoking, The Cossacks remains a compelling study of individuality and cultural identity.

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Title: Penguin Island

Author: Anatole France

Narrator: Frederick Davidson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-21-00

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 26 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

First published in 1908, and widely regraded as his masterpiece, Penguin Island is Anatole France's most searching and satirical novel. A humorous critique of customs and laws, rituals and rites, its subject is human nature, but its characters are penguins in the mythical land of Penguinia. The story of the strutting penguins and their virtues and vices is not merely a burlesque allegory of French history, it is a satire of the history of mankind. With gentle yet biting irony, France challenges the Spencerian belief in the ultimate perfectibility of man, though his irony reveals his sympathy for man's weaknesses and his need for social institutions.

(P)1999 by Blackstone Audiobooks

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Title: Silas Marner

Author: George Eliot

Narrator: Margaret Hilton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-16-99

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 23 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

For 15 years Silas Marner, the lonely, friendless weaver, has lived in exile, shunned by society after being falsely accused of a robbery. The only thing Marner cares about is his pile of gold, which suddenly disappears one day. Bitter and despondent, the weaver finds an abandoned young girl named Eppie and decides to take care of her. This classic novel was one of the most popular and acclaimed novels of the 19th century. It is a timeless fable about love, friendship, redemption, and the danger of choosing greed over true happiness.

Editorial Reviews:

Silas Marner tells the story of its namesake character, betrayed, exiled, and defrauded of the meager earnings from his loom. Margaret Hilton, a veteran performer of unabridged classics, brings a steadfast, understated eloquence to the hapless Marner, as he perseveres through seemingly endless misfortune. Increasingly isolated and despondent, Marner's prospects change when he finds a young orphan girl shivering in the snow. As Marner finds redemption in the love of his adoptive daughter, he manages to shake the demons of his past and find contentment in the arms of friends and family. Ultimately, Marner's plight is a testament to love, community, and faith - qualities that endure for Marner even as the corrupting tendencies of industrialization and greed threaten to destroy them.

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Titel: Krieg und Frieden - Buch 3

Autor:: Leo Tolstoi

Erzähler: Ulrich Noethen

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 19 hrs and 17 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 07-21-16

Herausgeber: Der Audio Verlag

Kategorien: Classics, World Literature

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Krieg und Frieden - Drittes Buch

1812. Es ist Krieg: Napoleons Armee wütet nun auch in Russland. Fürst Andrej könnte im Umfeld des Zaren dienen, doch er bittet um ein Frontkommando. In der Schlacht bei Borodino wird er schwer verletzt und versöhnt sich auf dem Krankenlager mit Natascha. Pierre fällt in Moskau den Franzosen in die Hände.

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Titolo: L'indifferente

Autore: Marcel Proust

Narratore: Tania De Domenico, Marco Troiano

Formato: Abridged

Durata: 37 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 05-27-15

Editore: GoodMood

Valutazioni: 5 su 5 su 1 voti

Categoria: Classics, World Literature

Riepilogo Editore:

La versione AudioBook di questa novella, è tratta quasi certamente da una vicenda personale di Marcel Proust relativa al suo rapporto con la principessa Wagram. Anche se appartiene alle sue prime opere già evidenzia il talento e la direzione artistica che lo scrittore svilupperà nel suo capolavoro, il romanzo che più lo rappresenta: Alla ricerca del tempo perduto.

Lepré un giovane uomo non proprio brillante, considerato poco più che una nullità da tutte le persone che appartengono al bel mondo, attrae, anche per queste sue insolite peculiarità che lo rendono diverso da tutti gli altri uomini, l'attenzione di Madeleine de Gouvres, avvenente e ricca vedova considerata la donna più bella e ricercata di Parigi. Nonostante le sue indubbie qualità e il suo aspetto davvero seducente, Madeleine fatica molto a conquistare il giovane. Lui le sfugge, nemmeno tenta di impegnarsi con lei, non è interessato neanche a un rapporto di amicizia.

La sua indifferenza sembra inspiegabile: come può un uomo modesto come lui, non sentirsi onorato dall'interesse e dall'amore sincero dell'affascinante vedova? Madeleine decide di indagare sul suo passato per scoprire i motivi dell'insolito comportamento. Scoprirà con sgomento che un risvolto scabroso condiziona pesantemente la vita di Lepré; pur conoscendo questa sua attitudine pericolosa e immorale, Madeleine non si scoraggia...

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Title: Oblomov [Russian Edition]

Author: Ivan Goncharov

Narrator: Vyacheslav Gerasimov

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-02-11

Publisher: New Internet Technologies

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Oblomov is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Oblomov is also the central character of the novel, often seen as the ultimate incarnation of the superfluous man, a symbolic character in 19th-century Russian literature. Oblomov was compared to Shakespeare's Hamlet as answering "No!" to the question "To be or not to be?" Oblomov is a young, generous nobleman who seems incapable of making important decisions or undertaking any significant actions. Throughout the novel he rarely leaves his room or bed and famously fails to leave his bed well into the novel. The book was considered a satire of Russian nobility whose social and economic function was increasingly in question in mid-19th century Russia.

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Title: Serebryanyy vek russkogo yumora

Author: Arkady Averchenko, Nadezhda Tehffi, Sasha Chernyy

Narrator: Vladimir Levashov

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-09-15

Publisher: Bibliophonika

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Nad chem smeyalis' v Rossii v pervye desyatiletiya XX veka? Kak i seychas - nad soboy. Ta zhe strana, te zhe lyudi. Ili vsyo-taki chto-to izmenilos'?

Poslushayte sbornik luchshih proizvedeniy iz zolotogo fonda otechestvennogo yumora pervoy poloviny XX veka - i otvet stanet ochevidnym. Fel'etonami i satiricheskimi rasskazami Tehffi, Arkadiya Averchenko zachityvalis' i Nikolay II, i V. I. Lenin - nastol'ko ostroumno, legko, yarko i uvlekatel'no pisali satiriki o nasushchnyh problemah prostogo cheloveka i vsego russkogo obshchestva. Proza Sashi Cernogo, Arkadiya Averchenko, Nadezhdy Tehffi pronizana umnym, smelym, udivitel'no tonkim yumorom i segodnya prodolzhaet zvuchat' sovremenno.

©2011 Bibliophonika (P)2014 Bibliophonika

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Title: The Devil's Pool

Author: George Sand

Narrator: Victoria Bradley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-24-17

Publisher: Audioliterature

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

"The Devil's Pool" (1846) is a novel about the life of the French peasants by George Sand.

Excerpt: "I knew the young man and the beautiful child; I knew their history, for they had a history. Although but a peasant and a laborer, Germain had always been aware of his duties and affections. He had related them to me clearly and ingenuously, and I had listened with interest. After some time spent in watching him plow, it occurred to me that I might write his story, though that story were as simple, as straightforward, and unadorned as the furrow he was tracing.

Next year that furrow will be filled and covered by a fresh one. Thus disappear most of the footprints made by man in the field of human life. A little earth obliterates them, and the furrows we have dug succeed one another like graves in a cemetery. I mean, if possible, to save from oblivion the furrow of Germain, the skilled husbandman. He will never know nor care, but I shall take pleasure in my talk."

©2017 Audioliterature (P)2017 Audioliterature

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Title: The Cossacks

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Narrator: Jonathan Oliver

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-19-10

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Dissolute, disenchanted Dmitri Olénin decides to join the army as a cadet and is despatched to the Caucasus. There, he is transformed by seeing how the indigenous people live in harmony with nature, how their lives have more meaning than those of the superficial social elite in Moscow, and he finds a new sense of self and purpose. But nothing is ever quite that simple.

Love and loyalty are tested to the very limits in this semi-autobiographical novella, which is one of Tolstoys best-loved works.

Editorial Reviews:

Tolstoy's novella tells how a young, aristocratic Russian, doing military service among the Cossacks in the Caucasus, learns about life, love, and himself, upsetting his previous notions. Jonathan Oliver performs, rather than reads, varying the voices adeptly from person to person and among men and women, matching speech to how it's described, providing the proper expression and emotions. His voice is strong; he's best at Cossack men, especially the rambunctious Daddy Eroshka. The use of strong British accents to represent Russian accents, while reasonable for a British production, may strike American listeners as odd - but it's the best way to go, and the distraction passes. This is an able narration of a fine, subtle work.

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Titel: Ein Mann will nach oben

Untertitel: Die Frauen und der Träumer

Autor:: Hans Fallada

Erzähler: Ulrich Noethen

Format: Abridged

Spieldauer: 9 hrs and 29 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 04-27-12

Herausgeber: HörbucHHamburg HHV GmbH

Kategorien: Classics, World Literature

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Der Waisenjunge Karl Siebrecht will im Berlin der Zwischenkriegszeit Karriere machen. Er chauffiert verbotene Frachten und dunkle Gestalten durch die Stadt und wird zum Beobachter der Berliner Gesellschaft. Rund zwei Jahrzehnte deutscher Geschichte erzählt dieser packende Roman über einen großen Lebenstraum und den Preis des Geldes.

©2011 Aufbau Verlag GmbH&Co. KG (P)2012 Hörbuch Hamburg HHV GmbH

Kritik Bewertungen:

Eine Berliner Variante des amerikanischen Traums.

-- Berliner Zeitung

Ein Kaleidoskop aus zweieinhalb Jahrzehnten deutscher Geschichte, ein packender Roman über einen großen Lebenstraum und den Preis des Geldes. Karl Siebrecht ist eine der schönsten Figuren, die Fallada je erfand.

-- Die Zeit

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