
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
A Leo Tolstoy Short Story
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The brilliance of this story is in how a normal bureaucrat, a judge in this case, has a small accident that winds up gradually taking his life. As he deals with this incident, with hope at first and then despair, he comes to terms with his family, his life, and the mediocrities that we all suffer with, except for the exceptional few. This story rings a particularly poignant note for those in early middle age facing the next part of their lives. This story is considered Tolstoy's best.
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The earth's surface is no longer habitable. All humanity is sequestered beneath the ground, couched in isolation and contentment. The Machine provides the needs of humanity. Mankind becomes subservient drones to the life-supporting Machine. But what happens when the Machine stops?
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Classic
- De H. Metz en 05-13-19
De: E. M. Forster
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The Jewel of Seven Stars
- De: Bram Stoker
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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The warning was inscribed on the entrance of the hidden tomb, forgotten for millennia in the sands of mystic Egypt. Then the archaeologists and grave robbers came in search of the fabled Jewel of Seven Stars, which they found clutched in the hand of the mummy. Few heeded the ancient warning, until all who came in contact with the Jewel began to die in a mysterious and violent way, with the marks of a strangler around their neck.
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Mother of all Mummy-Stories
- De Dorothea en 03-15-08
De: Bram Stoker
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Bambi, a Life in the Woods
- De: Felix Salten
- Narrado por: Noelle Dupuis
- Duración: 5 h y 38 m
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Bambi, a Life in the Woods is a coming-of-age story that follows the life of Bambi, a deer, from his birth through old age. As Bambi grows and matures, he experiences the loss of his mother, the finding of a mate, and learns about betrayal and essential lessons of the forest from his father. But most importantly, he realizes the danger posed by “He,” the term used by the animals to describe human hunters in the forest. In the end, Bambi learns the vital tools to survive in an unforgiving world.
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Great rendition
- De Anonymous User en 11-17-24
De: Felix Salten
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The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald & The Goblin and the Grocer by Hans Christian Andersen (Annotated)
- De: George MacDonald, Hans Christian Andersen
- Narrado por: Alison Larkin
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
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The Princess and the Goblin was published in 1872. One of the very first fantasy novels this magical classic had a profound influence on the work of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien and is loved by fans of fantasy fiction to this day. Eight-year-old Princess Irene lives in a remote mountainous region with no one but her nursemaid for company. Then she meets a mysterious old woman and Curdie, a young miner.
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Hurray for Curdie!
- De Reg en 11-15-16
De: George MacDonald, y otros
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The Four Feathers
- De: A. E. W. Mason
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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Just before his regiment sails off to war in the Sudan, British officer Harry Feversham quits the military. He is immediately given four white feathers as symbols of cowardice, one by each of his three best friends and one by his fiancée. To disprove this grave dishonor, Harry dons an Arabian disguise and leaves for the Sudan, where he anonymously comes to the aid of his three friends, saving each of their lives. Having proven his bravery, Harry returns to England, hoping to regain the love and respect of his fiancée.
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Deep Realistic Story Masterfully Read
- De Kappavpi en 07-05-04
De: A. E. W. Mason
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Dracula the Undead
- De: Freda Warrington
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
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The legend returns... It is seven years since a stake was driven through the heart of the infamous Count Dracula. Seven years which have not eradicated the terrible memories for Jonathan and Mina Harker, who now have a young son. To lay their memories to rest they return to Transylvania, and can find no trace of the horrific events. But, beneath the earth, Dracula's soul lies in limbo, waiting for the Lifeblood that will revive him....
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Very good Sequel to the Bram Stoker Original
- De David Melton en 01-08-21
De: Freda Warrington
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The Horror in the Museum
- De: H.P. Lovecraft, Hazel Heald
- Narrado por: H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society
- Duración: 1 h y 17 m
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Steven Jones, an entertainment producer from Chicago, journeys to London in search of new acts. There, he discovers the strange and disturbing wax museum of Rodgers and his inscrutable associate Orabona. Is the mad artist able to conjure up the world's most horrifying waxen effigies through his occult inspirations, or is there a darker secret lurking behind the wax and paint?
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Exemplar of Audio Theater
- De Bastion Drake en 07-21-22
De: H.P. Lovecraft, y otros
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Letter from an Unknown Woman
- De: Stefan Zweig
- Narrado por: Heather Wood, K. Anderson Yancy
- Duración: 1 h y 32 m
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Immediately following the death of her young son, distraught and heartbroken, a woman sends a heart-wrenching letter to the only man she has ever loved, chronicling their love affair, opening with, "To you, who have never known me."
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Tough 2 Hear With Background Music & Sound Effects
- De DK en 09-19-15
De: Stefan Zweig
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The Invisible Man and The Time Machine
- De: H. G. Wells
- Narrado por: B. J. Harrison
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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In The Invisible Man, a scientist theorizes that if a person's refractive index is changed to exactly that of air his body does not absorb or reflect light, then he will not be visible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but cannot become visible again, becoming mentally unstable as a result. In The Time Machine, we follow the Time Traveller to the year 802,701 A.D.. He finds a golden race of small, soft, innocent people. But what is it that lurks in the dark shadows?
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When The Invisible Man ends and The Time Machine begins
- De kíli en 04-08-18
De: H. G. Wells
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The Devil Rides Out
- De: Dennis Wheatley
- Narrado por: Nick Mercer
- Duración: 13 h y 17 m
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A classic of the horror genre, Dennis Wheatley’s The Devil Rides Out pits the powers of good against the forces of evil as the Duc de Richelieu wrestles for the soul of his friend with the charming but deadly Satanist, Mocata. Mocata has the power to summon the forces of darkness and - as the Duc and his friends will find - is willing to call upon ever-increasing horror until thundering hooves herald the arrival of the Devil Himself.
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This book is why audio books were created
- De Brandon Sholund en 11-13-23
De: Dennis Wheatley
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 2 h y 35 m
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Hailed as one of the world’s masterpieces of psychological realism, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high-court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face-to-face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?
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Elegant, simple, and true
- De Alexandria en 09-22-13
De: Leo Tolstoy
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The Death of Ivan Ilych
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: Matt Stewart
- Duración: 2 h y 45 m
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Leo Tolstoy's late masterpiece on dying and the unravelling of the values of his middle-class protagonist.
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Truly engaging
- De Tom Fallon en 05-13-22
De: Leo Tolstoy
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: George K. Wilson
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, Leo Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day, death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face to face with his own mortality.
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Ok Kind of hard to follow
- De Albert Theodore en 05-16-15
De: Leo Tolstoy
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: Sharon Plummer
- Duración: 2 h y 19 m
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich - first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, considered one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s. Usually classed among the best examples of the novella, The Death of Ivan Ilyich tells the story of a high-court judge in 19th-century Russia and his sufferings and death from a terminal illness.
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Narration Sounded out of flow and Ai created
- De Daniela en 05-16-24
De: Leo Tolstoy
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The Death of Ivan Ilych
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: Soren Filipski
- Duración: 2 h y 38 m
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In his perceptive and moving depiction of Ivan Ilych, a worldly careerist facing his own mortality in the midst of a self-absorbed family and indifferent colleagues, Tolstoy provides one of literature's greatest and most memorable reflections on the meaning of the good life and on life as preparation for death.
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Great experience
- De Amazon Customer en 08-03-16
De: Leo Tolstoy
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession
- De: Leo Tolstoy, Peter Carson - translator
- Narrado por: Ken Kliban
- Duración: 6 h y 13 m
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A pairing of Tolstoy's most spiritual and existential works of fiction and nonfiction from the renowned translator of Turgenev and Chekhov. In the last two days of his own life, Peter Carson completed these new translations of The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession before he succumbed to cancer in January 2013. In Carson's shimmering prose, these two transcendent works are presented in their most faithful rendering in English.
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Great Tolstoy Intro; Ilyich Narration is Painful
- De Rich en 04-03-16
De: Leo Tolstoy, y otros
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
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Hailed as one of the world’s masterpieces of psychological realism, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high-court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face-to-face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?
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Elegant, simple, and true
- De Alexandria en 09-22-13
De: Leo Tolstoy
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The Death of Ivan Ilych
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: Matt Stewart
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Leo Tolstoy's late masterpiece on dying and the unravelling of the values of his middle-class protagonist.
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Truly engaging
- De Tom Fallon en 05-13-22
De: Leo Tolstoy
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: George K. Wilson
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, Leo Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day, death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face to face with his own mortality.
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Ok Kind of hard to follow
- De Albert Theodore en 05-16-15
De: Leo Tolstoy
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: Sharon Plummer
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich - first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, considered one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s. Usually classed among the best examples of the novella, The Death of Ivan Ilyich tells the story of a high-court judge in 19th-century Russia and his sufferings and death from a terminal illness.
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Narration Sounded out of flow and Ai created
- De Daniela en 05-16-24
De: Leo Tolstoy
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The Death of Ivan Ilych
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: Soren Filipski
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In his perceptive and moving depiction of Ivan Ilych, a worldly careerist facing his own mortality in the midst of a self-absorbed family and indifferent colleagues, Tolstoy provides one of literature's greatest and most memorable reflections on the meaning of the good life and on life as preparation for death.
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Great experience
- De Amazon Customer en 08-03-16
De: Leo Tolstoy
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession
- De: Leo Tolstoy, Peter Carson - translator
- Narrado por: Ken Kliban
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A pairing of Tolstoy's most spiritual and existential works of fiction and nonfiction from the renowned translator of Turgenev and Chekhov. In the last two days of his own life, Peter Carson completed these new translations of The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession before he succumbed to cancer in January 2013. In Carson's shimmering prose, these two transcendent works are presented in their most faithful rendering in English.
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Great Tolstoy Intro; Ilyich Narration is Painful
- De Rich en 04-03-16
De: Leo Tolstoy, y otros
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The Kingdom of God Is Within You
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: Malk Williams, Stephane Cornicard
- Duración: 14 h y 12 m
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Banned in Russia, Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God Is Within You was deemed a threat to church and state. The culmination of a lifetime's thought, it espouses a commitment to Jesus's message of turning the other cheek. In a bold and original treatise, Tolstoy shows his readers clearly why they must reject violence of any sort—even that sanctioned by the state or the church—and urges them to look within themselves to find the answers to questions of morality.
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Tolstoy at his best
- De J.Brock en 05-05-23
De: Leo Tolstoy
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 2 h y 36 m
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Leo Tolstoy is quite simply one of the greatest writers to ever set pen to paper. Immortalized by such epic novels as War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy's genius was also readily apparent in his short fiction. The Death of Ivan Ilych follows the career of the unremarkable title character, who does not question his desire to live an "easy, agreeable, gay and always decorous" life, until he is lying on his death bed.
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Some Things are Better on the Page
- De Roy en 04-12-09
De: Leo Tolstoy
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A Confession
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: Mark Bowen
- Duración: 3 h y 13 m
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A Confession, or My Confession, is a short work on the subject of melancholia, philosophy and religion by the acclaimed Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. It was written in 1879 to 1880, when Tolstoy was in his early fifties. The book is a brief autobiographical story of the author's struggle with a mid-life existential crisis. It describes his search for the answer to the ultimate philosophical question: "If God does not exist, since death is inevitable, what is the meaning of life?." Without the answer to this, for him, life had become "impossible".
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Excellent book
- De Chris Dostie en 01-06-25
De: Leo Tolstoy
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Resurrection
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 16 h y 52 m
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Tolstoy based Resurrection, the last of his novels, on a true story of a philanderer whose misuse of a beautiful young orphan girl leads to her ruin. Fate brings the two together many years later, and the meeting awakens the man's moral conscience. Anger, intimacy, forgiveness, and grace result.
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Vance is Wonderful!
- De C. Davis en 09-26-09
De: Leo Tolstoy
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White Nights
- De: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 1 h y 55 m
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“White Nights” tells the story of a lonely man who wanders the streets of St. Petersburg over the course of four nights, searching for an escape from his isolation.
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Great Narrator
- De Anonymous User en 12-17-21
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: Oliver Ford Davies
- Duración: 2 h y 51 m
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The subject of this well-known Tolstoy novella is a high court judge in St. Petersburg who lives a carefree life. One day, without warning, he is beset by pains and soon has to come to terms with the fact that he is going to die. The judge has to learn to face death without fear and yet feel compassion for the family he is leaving behind.
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Excellent voice
- De O. en 03-08-17
De: Leo Tolstoy
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War and Peace
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: Zach Barrett
- Duración: 67 h y 33 m
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War and Peace is a literary work by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy that mixes fictional narrative with chapters on history and philosophy. It was first published serially, then published in its entirety in 1869. It is regarded as Tolstoy's finest literary achievement and remains an internationally praised classic of world literature. The novel chronicles the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families.
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Anna Karenina
- Penguin Classics
- De: Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrado por: Miranda Pleasence
- Duración: 36 h y 59 m
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Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Their subsequent affair scandalizes society and family alike and soon brings jealously and bitterness in its wake. Contrasting with this tale of love and self-destruction is the vividly observed story of Levin, a man striving to find contentment and a meaning to his life - and also a self-portrait of Tolstoy himself.
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Happy listeners are all alike
- De Reader en 12-12-20
De: Leo Tolstoy, y otros
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The Idiot
- De: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrado por: Constantine Gregory
- Duración: 24 h y 56 m
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Prince Lyov Nikolayevitch Myshkin is one of the great characters in Russian literature. Is he a saint or just naïve? Is he an idealist or, as many in General Epanchin's society feel, an "idiot"? Certainly his return to St. Petersburg after years in a Swiss clinic has a dramatic effect on the beautiful Aglaia, youngest of the Epanchin daughters, and on the charismatic but willful Nastasya Filippovna. As he paints a vivid picture of Russian society, Dostoyevsky shows how principles conflict with emotions - with tragic results.
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Moments of surprise.
- De Theo en 05-02-18
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The Brothers Karamazov
- (Bicentennial Edition)
- De: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrado por: Ben Miles
- Duración: 42 h y 16 m
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The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons—the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.
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Well Worth Your Time
- De Scole en 12-06-24
De: Fyodor Dostoevsky, y otros
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Anna Karenina
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Duración: 35 h y 35 m
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Leo Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature. Generations of readers have been enthralled by his magnificent heroine, the unhappily married Anna Karenina, and her tragic affair with dashing Count Vronsky.
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Need to Disclose and Highlight Name of Translator
- De Charles B en 08-27-18
De: Leo Tolstoy
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War and Peace
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 61 h y 6 m
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Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Tolstoy's genius is clearly seen in the multitude of characters in this massive chronicle, all of them fully realized and equally memorable.
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Glad I finally decided to read it
- De Plumeria en 09-25-05
De: Leo Tolstoy
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- Holly Money-Collins
- 02-05-13
Made Me Think and Sometimes Shutter
I've listened to the “Death of Ivan Illyich” several times and every listen gives me a new prospective in the process of dying and death. Not just the dying of an individual, but the accurate feelings, needs and self protecting aspects of those around the dying. It’s marvelous how Leo Tolstoy taps into the truth of the human heart.
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- Jennifer
- 03-19-13
The narrator almost makes listening impossible...
Would you try another book from Leo Tolstoy and/or Bill DeWees?
The only saving grace for this Audio book is the story itself. Bill DeWees is awful and lifeless. For a period of time I thought it was a computer generated voice and then realized it was a person. I struggled to listen to this lifeless narration.
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- P Lunaria
- 06-23-16
I spent five minutes motionless after it finished.
Everyone should read this book at least once in their lifetime. I just hope I don't feel the same way when I go.
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- Lana Abu Ayyash
- 01-12-12
A masterpiece
Leo Tolstoy is one of the greatest writers of all times ... this book is very unique ... through a smiple but incridably well written story all the questions of life, death, right and wrong are raised and challanged...
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- Brenda Martin
- 06-19-15
Must read/ listen
Everyone alive will, at some point, ponder death.
This prepares you for that discussion with yourself!
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- Joe Moore
- 02-28-16
Excellent Tolstoy. Poor narration.
This is an excellent collection of Tolstoy's stories. The narration leaves much to be desired.
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- DanicaDan
- 05-09-16
Distracting narrator
What did you like best about this story?
The insights into characters' thoughts and feelings behind the events.
Would you be willing to try another one of Bill DeWees’s performances?
No. He read mechanically, like a kid in a highschool drama performance, but with no teacher to correct his pronunciation. Laughably bad French and embarrassing English.
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- Sam Motes
- 04-04-13
Embracing death
The story of the decent from vitality to denial to acceptance to embracing the finality of death. A short read but very moving look at one man's fight against the mortal coil. Another great book by Tolstoy.
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- Joe
- 03-04-14
The Egotist Looks At A Mirror
What did you like best about The Death of Ivan Ilyich? What did you like least?
Ironically, the answer to both questions is Ivan's conversion at the end of his life. The humanity of facing ones death is an inevitability for all and our vision of Ivan is a window into that psychology. For 99.99%+ of the population, we can only truly understand the death experience when we die. I only give nominal deference to those who have "experienced" being brain dead but have been revived. Even still, they did not die completely. Tolstoy's attempt is ambitious but it rings plausible enough for a honest rendering of my own end (several decades from now, I hope). What most disappointed me was the ending which described a conversion that was anything besides a factual existence. Ivan began his long path of terminal diagnosis in a state of disbelief. How could he be dying since he lived so well? But in the end, his pain goes away only when he accepted that he lived selfishly. This realization perpetuates the mythology that our sufferings are directly proportional to our "goodness". At one point, all the people around Ivan, including the doctors, accept the inevitable because Ivan's ailments are beyond their reach and understanding - why cannot man accept that the world in all of its glory and good things is made for their sole benefit? This ego-centrism is frustrating to witness first hand but perhaps can be somewhat forgiven as this was written in the 1886 when religion was still a principle source of scientific knowledge.
What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
See question above.
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Bill DeWees?
I'm keeping my 2-star rating but it's probably unfair. I DID feel the performance was a bit mechanical but so was the writing. Still, I can not offer an alternate narrator.
Do you think The Death of Ivan Ilyich needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
No, this book is not open ended and nor should it be. This book is intended to efface self-reflection regarding death and I think it's sufficiently accomplished.
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Answer: Die and pay taxes.
Where does The Death of Ivan Ilyich rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
The best.
What did you like best about this story?
This short story is a great wake-up call to all of us who are preparing to retire instead of preparing to die. I want to be ready when my time comes. Ivan Illyich gives me a glimpse of what it might look like to approach the reality of my mortality without a clue. I've listened to this book many times already and hear something insightfully new each time I re-listen.
What about Bill DeWees’s performance did you like?
Clear. Intelligible. Engaging. He sounds like he could be one of the charcters in this story.
If you could take any character from The Death of Ivan Ilyich out to dinner, who would it be and why?
Gerasim. While I know much about Ivan because he's the main character, I'd like to know more about this kind, guileless young man.
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