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    The Best Russian Short Stories
    The Best Russian Short Stories
    The Best Russian Short Stories
    Audiobook7 hours

    The Best Russian Short Stories

    Written by Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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    A brilliant collection of short stories by some of Russia's best writers.
    1. Twenty-Six Men and a Girl by Maxim Gorky
    2. The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
    3. The Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    4. The Long Exile by Count Leo Tolstoy
    5. The Self-Sacrificing Rabbit by Nicolai Schedrin
    6. Comrades by Maxim Gorky
    7. A Candle by Count Leo Tolstoy
    8. The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
    9. The Encased Man by Anton Chekhov
    10. The Pistol Shot by Alexander Pushkin
    11. The Chorus Girl by Anton Chekhov
    12. The Old Verger by Vladimir Korolenko
    13. The Three Hermits by Count Leo Tolstoy
    14. The Ghost of the Engineers’ Castle by Nikolai Leskov
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateJun 6, 2014
    ISBN9781467681759
    Author

    Anton Chekhov

    Anton Chekhov was born in Taganrog, in southern Russia, and in his youth paid for his own education and supported his entire family by writing short, satirical sketches of Russian life. Though he eventually became a physician and once considered medicine his principal career, he continued to gain popularity and praise as a writer for various Russian newspapers, eventually authoring more literary work and ultimately his most well-known plays, including Ivanov, The Seagull, and Uncle Vanya. He died of tuberculosis in 1904, and is regarded as one of the best short story writers in history, influencing such authors as Ernest Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov, and Raymond Carver.

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      I’d have continued listening had it not been for the narrator’s very unusual style. I prefer to have someone read a book in a more natural way. This seemed very forced and mechanical, with no softness or change in style.