The Best Russian Short Stories

~ Release by Various Artists read by Cathy Dobson (see all versions of this release, 2 available)

Tracklist

1▼Digital Media
#TitleRatingLength
1Twenty-Six Men and a Girl / The Queen of Spades / The Honest Thief / The Long Exile / The Self-Sacrificing Rabbit / Comrades / A Candle / The Nose / The Encased Man / The Pistol Shot / The Chorus Girl / The Old Verger / The Three Hermits / The Ghost of the Engineers’ Castle
spoken vocals:
Cathy Dobson (narrator)
recording of:
A Candle (translator unknown. Begins as follows: "The incident took place at a time when the landowners …")
writer:
Leo Tolstoy (Russian writer Leo Tolstoy)
recording of:
Comrades (translator unknown. Begins as follows: "The hot July sun shone brightly …")
writer:
Maxim Gorky
recording of:
The Chorus Girl (translator unknown. Begins as follows: "Once, when she was young, prettier, and had a better voice …")
writer:
Anton Chekhov (auch bekoannt unter "Anton Pavlovič Čechov")
recording of:
The Encased Man (translator unknown. Begins as follows: "In a shed belonging to Prokofy the elder …")
writer:
Anton Chekhov (auch bekoannt unter "Anton Pavlovič Čechov")
recording of:
The Ghost of the Engineers’ Castle (translator unknown. Begins as follows: "Houses, like people, have their own reputations. There are houses that by general opinion are considered impure …")
writer:
Nikolai Leskov
recording of:
The Honest Thief (translator unknown. Begins as follows: "One morning, as I was starting for work …")
writer:
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Russian writer)
recording of:
The Long Exile; or, God Sees the Truth, but Bides His Time (translator unknown. Incipit: "Once upon a time there lived in the city of Vladimir a young tradesman named Aksenof.")
writer:
Leo Tolstoy (Russian writer Leo Tolstoy)
recording of:
The Nose (translator unknown. Incipit: "On 25 March an unusually strange event occurred in St. Petersburg.")
writer:
Nikolai Gogol (Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol)
translated version of:
Нос
recording of:
The Old Verger (anonymous, 19th-century translation. Incipit: "It is growing dark.")
writer:
Vladimir Korolenko
translator:
[anonymous] (special purpose artist)
translated version of:
Старый звонарь
recording of:
The Pistol Shot (translator unknown. Incipit: "We were in camp in a small Russian village.")
writer:
Alexander Pushkin (Russian writer)
recording of:
The Queen of Spades (Keane translation)
writer:
Alexander Pushkin (Russian writer)
translator:
Thomas Keane (translator of Russian literature)
translated version of:
Пиковая дама
recording of:
The Self-Sacrificing Rabbit (translator unknown. Incipit: "One day a rabbit incurred the displeasure of a wolf.")
writer:
Nicolai Schedrin
recording of:
The Three Hermits (translator unknown. Begins as follows: "A certain bishop set out to sea in a ship …")
writer:
Leo Tolstoy (Russian writer Leo Tolstoy)
recording of:
Twenty-Six Men and a Girl (translator unknown. Begins as follows: "There were twenty-six of us—twenty-six living machines, locked up in a damp cellar …")
writer:
Maxim Gorky
7:06:01

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