Audiobooks by Anton Chekhov

The Top 10 Short Stories - Love Audiobook

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.In this volume our classic authors turn their pens to the immortal quest for love. What they find and what they reveal are, of course, illuminating, beguiling and the best of magical literature.01 - The Top 10 - Love - An Introduction02 - Araby by James Joyce03 - A Modern Lover - Part 1 by D H Lawrence04 - A Modern Lover - Part 2 by D H Lawrence05 - The Fullness of Life by Edith Wharton06 - About Love by Anton Chekhov07 - Mr and Mrs Dove by Katherine Mansfield08 - The Blizzard by Alexander Pushkin09 - On the Gull's Road by Willa Cather10 - Madame Rose Hanie by Khalil Gibran11 - The Gift of the Magi by O Henry12 - The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde

Alexander Pushkin, Anton Chekhov, D.H. Lawrence, Edith Wharton, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, Khalil Gibran, O Henry, Oscar Wilde, Willa Cather (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Jim Norton, Kelly O'doherty (Narrator)

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Lost Love - Short Stories

Love. Perhaps the one word solution for everything. An emotion, a state of mind that we strive for, search for. A wondrous force that binds, inspires, and a force that can spin out of control; unbalanced and fragile. Love reflects, changes and embraces us all. In this series we explore the many facets of love through literary talents that span both time and country. Having found Love what happens when we lose it. Of course this can be for many reasons but the results almost aways bring heartbreak and perhaps an unendurable loss. Pain, grief, loneliness, many emotions take root within our hearts. Our classic authors have stories that describe all these feelings and much more.1 - Lost Love - Short Stories - An Introduction2 - The Altar of the Dead - Part 1 by Henry James3 - The Altar of the Dead - Part 2 by Henry James4 - The Lagoon by Joseph Conrad5 - The Grave by Guy de Maupassant6 - About Love by Anton Chekhov7 - The Border Line by D H Lawrence8 - An Egyptian Cigarette by Kate Chopin9 - Uncle Abraham's Romance by Edith Nesbit10 - Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter by Sheridan Le Fanu11 - Since I Died by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps12 - The Mass of Shadows by Anatole France13 - The Cold Embrace by Mary Elizabeth Braddon14 - The Night Before Thanksgiving by Sarah Orne Jewett15 - The Haunted Orchard by Richard Le Gallienne16 - The Second Generation by Algernon Blackwood17 - Springtime a la Carte by O Henry

Anton Chekhov, Henry James (Author), Laurel Lefkow, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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100 Quotes by Anton Tchekhov

Peppered with pithy and wry observations, ‘100 Quotes by Anton Chekhov’ offers an insight into one of the greatest literary minds of the 20th Century. Covering a variety of topics, you may find yourself surprised as to how many of his musings have worked their way into everyday life. A superb book for those who want to get to know the man behind works such as ‘The Seagull,’ and ‘Uncle Vanya.’ - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 – 1904) was born in Taganrog, in Southern Russia. The son of a grocer, and the third of six children, he was educated at the local Greek School. After Chekhov’s father became bankrupt, the family lived in poverty, before fleeing to Moscow to avoid debtor’s prison. After writing a series of tales for various publications, Chekhov started to gain critical attention. However, it was a trip to the Ukraine that put the literary wheels in motion. After the publication of his novella, ‘The Steppe,’ he was commissioned to write a play, resulting in ‘Ivanov.’ Over the course of his career, Chekhov wrote more than 200 short stories and 14 plays. Works, such as ‘The Seagull,’ ‘The Cherry Orchard,’ and ‘Uncle Vanya,’ have been performed on stages across the world. Chekhov's works have also been adapted to the screen numerous times. The 2018 adaptation of 'The Seagull' stars Annette Bening, Elisabeth Moss and Saoirse Ronan.

Anton Chekhov (Author), Brad Carty (Narrator)

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300 Quotes from Russian writers

‘300 Quotes from Russian Writers’ is a carefully crafted collection of inspiration, wit, and wisdom from some of the greatest ever Russian writers, including Fyodor Dostoievsky, Léo Tolstoy and Anton Chekov. These giants of literature are considered among the greatest writers to have ever lived and are responsible for some of the world’s most influential and highly acclaimed works. A carefully crafted collection, ‘300 Quotes from Russian Writers’ is ideal for anyone with an inquiring mind about the musings of some of Russia's greatest authors. - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 –1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers in the world. He is best known for his works ‘The Seagull’ and ‘Uncle Vanya’. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 – 1881) was a Russian novelist and short story writer. His most celebrated novels include ‘Crime and Punishment’ (1866), ‘The Idiot’ (1869), and ‘The Brothers Karamazov’ (1880). Leo Tolstoy (1828 –1910) was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest writers of all time. Best known for his great novels ‘War and Peace’ (1869) and ‘Anna Karenina’ (1878).

Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy (Author), Brad Carty (Narrator)

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The Duel

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) is a Russian writer universally regarded as an all-time master. According to Mikhail Chekhov, while working upon 'The Duel,' Chekhov periodically met with the zoologist and writer Vladimir Wagner. The two men had extensive conversations, one of which was on the subject of the then-popular idea of 'the right of the strong one,' which became the basis of the philosophy of the main character of the story, named Von Koren, for whom Wagner apparently served as a basic template. The story has been twice adapted for the screen, once in 1973 and again in 2010. Frank Marcopolos is the in-house audiobook narrator for The Bookquarium, whose voice-work has garnered praise from listeners such as: 'You have the perfect reading voice It’s amazing!' 'My goodness! That's the best narration I have ever heard!' 'Pitch, pace, and power in your natural, conversational style... You're the best I've heard.' 'Your voice is INCREDIBLE and the tone is quite captivating. Excellent reading. You're a lifesaver!' 'Bravo! Your voice is incredible and you really bring a ton of artistic energy to your readings. Thoroughly enjoyed this and love listening to your work!' 'I enjoyed your interpretation that you showed through your pauses, intonations, tones, etc. I prefer not to listen to any other audiobooks than yours. :)' This story has been translated by Constance Garnett, and the translation and the text of the story are in the public domain.

Anton Chekhov (Author), Frank Marcopolos (Narrator)

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The Little Trilogy: Three Love Stories

Anton Chekhov is universally regarded as an all-time master of the short story form. Nowhere is this better displayed than within 'The Little Trilogy,' three interconnected short stories about love. The stories are 'The Man in a Case,' 'Gooseberries,' and 'About Love.' Referred to as literary intertextuality, these stories contain recurring characters, settings, and themes. Frank Marcopolos is an audiobook narrator whose voice-work has garnered praise from listeners such as: 'You have the perfect reading voice It’s amazing!' 'My goodness! That's the best narration I have ever heard!' 'Pitch, pace, and power in your natural, conversational style... You're the best I've heard.' 'Your voice is INCREDIBLE and the tone is quite captivating. Excellent reading. You're a lifesaver!' 'Bravo! Your voice is incredible and you really bring a ton of artistic energy to your readings. Thoroughly enjoyed this and love listening to your work!' 'I enjoyed your interpretation that you showed through your pauses, intonations, tones, etc. I prefer not to listen to any other audiobooks than yours. :)' All three stories have been translated by Constance Garnett, and the translations, as well as the text of the stories, are in the public domain.

Anton Chekhov (Author), Frank Marcopolos (Narrator)

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The Greatest Russian Stories of Crime and Suspense

A collection of the greatest Russian crime and mystery fiction-including stories by Akunin, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Nabokov, Pushkin, and Tolstoy. Many of the greatest Russian authors, including Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Pushkin, produced crime and mystery fiction, a type of literature that was largely suppressed during the Soviet era because it did not glorify the state, but rather, gave significance to individual characters. With the fall of the Soviet Union, mystery writers have become some of the most successful novelists in Russia, and there is a renewed interest in, and appreciation of, the great crime classics of an earlier era. There have been few policemen, and virtually no private detectives or amateur sleuths, in Russian history worthy of approbation, and in consequence its literature is dramatically different from its Western counterparts. Criminals in Mother Russia tend to be caught or punished by their own consciences or by ghosts, and the notion of a criminal trial as we know it is utterly alien. Nonetheless, the enormous talent and passion of Russian authors has long been justly acclaimed, and the rare forays they made into the loosely defined genre of mystery fiction rank among the world's classics. This volume is the first collection ever devoted entirely to Russian crime fiction.

Alexander Pushkin, Anton Chekhov, Boris Akunin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Vladimir Nabokov (Author), Bj Harrison (Narrator)

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The Kiss

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born on 29th January 1860 in Taganrog, on the south coast of Russia. His family life was difficult; his father was strict and over-bearing but his mother was a passionate story-teller, a subject Chekhov warmed to. As he later said; 'our talents we got from our father, but our soul from our mother'. At school Chekhov was distinctly average. At 16 his father mis-managed his finances and was declared bankrupt. His family fled to Moscow. Chekhov remained and eked out a living by various means, including writing and selling short sketches to newspapers, to finish his schooling. That completed and with a scholarship to Moscow University obtained he rejoined his family.He was able to help support them by selling satirical sketches and vignettes of Russian lifestyles and gradually obtained further commissions. In 1884, he qualified as a physician and, although it earned him little, he often treated the poor for free, he was fond of saying 'Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress.'His own health was now an issue as he began to cough up blood, a symptom of tuberculosis. Despite this his writing success enabled him to move the family into more comfortable accommodation. Chekhov wrote over 500 short stories which included many, many classics including 'The Kiss' and 'The Lady with a Dog'. His collection 'At Dusk' won him the coveted Pushkin Prize when was only 26. He was also a major playwright beginning with the huge success of 'Ivanov' in 1887. In 1892 Chekhov bought a country estate north of Moscow. Here his medical skills and money helped the peasants tackle outbreaks of cholera and bouts of famine. He also built three schools, a fire station and a clinic. It left him with less time for writing but the interactions with real people gained him detailed knowledge about the peasantry and their living conditions for his stories. His most famous work, 'The Seagull' was received disastrously at its premiere in St Petersburg. It was later restaged in Moscow to highlight its psychological aspects and was a huge success. It led to 'Uncle Vanya', 'The Three Sisters' and 'The Cherry Orchard'. Chekhov suffered a major lung hemorrhage in 1897 while visiting Moscow. A formal diagnosis confirmed tuberculosis and the doctors ordered changes to his lifestyle. Despite a dread of weddings the elusive literary bachelor quietly married the actress Olga Knipper, whom he had met at rehearsals for 'The Seagull', on 25th May 1901.By May 1904 with his tuberculosis worsening and death imminent he set off for the German town of Badenweiler writing cheerful, witty letters to his family and assuring them his health was improving. On 15th July 1904 Anton Chekhov died at Badenweiler. He was 44.

Anton Chekhov (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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The Lady with the Dog

Anton Chekhov (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe (Narrator)

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B. J. Harrison Reads The Bet

While hosting a party, a banker makes a bet with one of his guests, who is a lawyer. The topic of the bet is capital punishment and whether it is worse or better than a life sentence. The banker sees the capital punishment as more humane than life imprisonment, whilst the young lawyer completely disagrees. The bet is as follows: if the lawyer spends fifteen years in complete isolation, the banker will give him two million rubles. As the years pass, the banker realizes that he will go bankrupt if he loses the bet. That is why he decides to kill the lawyer, but the note he finds shocks him. Was did they make such a bet? Is it worth it to spending fifteen years in isolation for two million rubles? Which of the two men is right? Will the banker really kill the lawyer, or will he change his mind? How is this bet going to end? You can find all the answers in Anton Chekhov’s short story 'The Bet', first published in 1889.

Anton Chekhov (Author), B. J. Harrison (Narrator)

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B. J. Harrison Reads The Lady With The Dog

Dmitri Gurov is a nearly forty-year-old man, who is married and has three children. He is unhappy with his marriage and regrets this big mistake every single day. While on a vacation, Dmitri meets Anna Sergeyevna – a young lady, who just like him is unhappily married. Very soon a love affair enfolds between the two and they start secretly meeting at different places. Unfortunately, Anna must go back to Moscow because her husband is having some health issues. Dmitri cannot live with the thought of never seeing her again and sets off to find her. Why is Gurov not happy with his marriage? What exactly is he missing? How long is the affair going to last and can it evolve into something greater? Will Dmitri be able to find Anna in the big city? You can find all the answers in Chekhov’s short story 'The Lady with the Dog'.

Anton Chekhov (Author), B. J. Harrison (Narrator)

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B. J. Harrison Reads The Kiss

Lieutenant-General von Rabbek is a local aristocrat, who invites the officers of the Reserve Artillery Brigade to a cup of tea with brandy. Of all the guests, Ryabovitch is the most unpleasant one. While doing his best to avoid talking to people, Ryabovitch enters a dark room, where he an unknown woman surprises him by kissing him, then running away. The unexpected kiss awakes Ryabovitch's curiosity and passion, and the man spends the rest of the evening searching for the mysterious woman. Why does nobody like Ryabovitch? Why is he avoiding the other guests? Who was the woman that kissed him? Will he be able to find her again and what will happen if he does? You can find all the answers in Anton Chekhov’s short story 'The Kiss'.

Anton Chekhov (Author), B. J. Harrison (Narrator)

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