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The Black Monk by Anton Chekhov audiobook.
Genre: tragedy
Anton Chekhov's The Black Monk follows Andrey Kovrin, a brilliant young scholar worn down by years of intense study. On the advice of friends, he retreats to the quiet countryside estate of Yegor Pesotsky, a devoted horticulturist whose vast gardens are his life's pride. There, amid summer light, long walks, and the warm companionship of Pesotsky's daughter Tanya, Kovrin seems to recover his strength and even glimpses a gentler future. But the calm is disturbed by an uncanny figure from legend: the Black Monk, a mysterious apparition who appears to Kovrin in moments of solitude and speaks to him with seductive certainty about greatness, destiny, and the right of exceptional people to live beyond ordinary limits. As Kovrin's visions intensify, he is pulled between love and duty, health and ecstasy, humility and a dangerous conviction that suffering may be the price of genius. Chekhov builds a tense psychological portrait of ambition and self-deception, asking whether inspiration is a gift, a sickness, or both, and what it can cost the people who care most about us.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:42:31) Chapter 02
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The Black Monk by Anton Chekhov audiobook.
Genre: tragedy
Anton Chekhov's The Black Monk follows Andrey Kovrin, a brilliant young scholar worn down by years of intense study. On the advice of friends, he retreats to the quiet countryside estate of Yegor Pesotsky, a devoted horticulturist whose vast gardens are his life's pride. There, amid summer light, long walks, and the warm companionship of Pesotsky's daughter Tanya, Kovrin seems to recover his strength and even glimpses a gentler future. But the calm is disturbed by an uncanny figure from legend: the Black Monk, a mysterious apparition who appears to Kovrin in moments of solitude and speaks to him with seductive certainty about greatness, destiny, and the right of exceptional people to live beyond ordinary limits. As Kovrin's visions intensify, he is pulled between love and duty, health and ecstasy, humility and a dangerous conviction that suffering may be the price of genius. Chekhov builds a tense psychological portrait of ambition and self-deception, asking whether inspiration is a gift, a sickness, or both, and what it can cost the people who care most about us.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:42:31) Chapter 02
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