Audiobooks by Alexander Pushkin

The duel is specifically about honour. A principle that humanity often takes too far, even today.In centuries past the duel was fought by two men who could resolve their quarrel in no other way. The victim felt anything from slighted to humiliated and must regain his honour, whatever the cost. Pistols at ten paces, or rather closer with swords, should see the matter settled. Of course, despite its arrival at violence there were many rules ands traditions to take account of.In this volume our classic authors explore all sorts of duels and the consequences of those actions.1 - Stories About Duels - An Introduction2 - The Shot by Alexander Pushkin3 - The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane4 - A Coward by Guy de Maupassant5 - An Ugly Customer by Bernard Capes6 - Cavalleria Rusticana by Giovanni Verga7 - The Middle Toe of the Right Foot by Ambrose Bierce8 - The Duel by Nikolai Teleshov

Alexander Pushkin (Author), David Shaw-Parker (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - La tempestad de nieve (Completo)

La tempestad de nieve - María Gavrílovna es una joven rusa que se enamora de Vladimir, un alférez del ejército. Debido a la humilde condición del muchacho, los padres de María no aprueban la relación. Los amantes deciden que la única solución a sus penas amorosas es fugarse y casarse en secreto.

Alexander Pushkin (Author), Marcos Ballate (Narrator)

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[Portuguese] - Eugene Onegin: O essencial dos contos russos

Eugene Onegin é jovem, bonito, rico... e uma pessoa entediada. Nada o impressiona: nem sua casa enorme cheia de móveis caros, nem os bailes deslumbrantes que frequenta, nem os jantares suntuosos dos quais participa. Com a morte de um tio, que deixa para ele suas propriedades decadentes, Eugene se muda para o interior. Lá conhece o vivaz e inteligente Lensky, e a linda, delicada e discreta Tatyana. Será que Eugene aproveitará essa oportunidade de desfrutar uma vida nova e feliz, ou seu mal comportamento atrapalhará tudo?

Alexander Pushkin (Author), Diego Muras (Narrator)

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The Top 10 Short Stories - Love

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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Alexander Pushkin: Egyptian Nights and Other Tales of Imagination and Romance

This original compilation from Skyboat Media features the most inventive and poetic of Alexander Pushkin's short fiction. Exposed to French culture at a young age, Pushkin's work reflects these sensibilities, and he combines this with stories of his Russian ancestors that his grandmother would relate to him and his siblings during their summers near Moscow. In the unfinished title story, "Egyptian Nights," Charsky is ashamed of the way writers and poets are viewed in his society, so he tries to keep his identity as one a secret. But when an Italian improvisatore asks for help in finding a way to make money with his art, Charsky must confront what it means to be an artist in the public eye, and all the acclaim-and criticism-that comes with it. "Marie" is a timeless tale of love and duty that chronicles the romance between young Peter Grineff and Marie, his captain's daughter, during the rebellion of the Cossacks under the reign of Catherine the Great. In "The Coffin-Maker," Adrian Prokhoroff, a rigid, unfriendly undertaker, moves his business and his two daughters to a new city. At his housewarming party, he must deal with some of his spookier clientele. And in "The Queen of Spades," a young man who has always shied away from gambling is intrigued by the story of a Countess who won a large sum of money with a specific set of cards and then never played another hand. Eager to win a fortune for himself, he sets out to find the Countess and extract from her the combination of cards she played in that fateful game. Featuring these stories and more, Egyptian Nights and Other Tales of Imagination and Romance showcases Pushkin's unique voice and insightful prose from throughout his career. Full contents: "The Shot" (1831)"The Coffin-Maker" (1831)"Egyptian Nights" (1837)"The History of the Village of Gorohina" (1837)"The Postmaster" (1830)"Marie" (1831)"The Snowstorm" (1830)"The Gypsies" (1827)"An Amateur Peasant Girl" (1831)"The Queen of Spades" (1834)

Alexander Pushkin (Author), Stefan Rudnicki (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 Queen of Spades (Moonlit Tales of the Macabre - Small Bites Book 1)

Alexander Pushkin (Author), Fred Wolinsky (Narrator)

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A Tale About A Fisherman and A Fish

Alexander Pushkin (Author), Lyssa Browne (Narrator)

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Eugene Onegin [Russian Edition]

This novel in verse, said to be the parent of all Russian novels, is a tragic story of innocence, love, and friendship. Eugene Onegin, an aristocrat, much like Pushkin and his peers in his attitude and habits, is bored. He visits the countryside where the young and passionate Tatyana falls in love with him. In a touching letter she confesses her love but is cruelly rejected. Years later, it is Onegin's turn to be rejected by Tatyana.

Alexander Pushkin (Author), Oleg Fedorov (Narrator)

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Theatre Royal - Queen of Spades & The Overcoat: Episode 1

Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was. Hosted by Laurence Olivier, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Olivier himself. They were based on works by the worlds' leading authors, among them Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Anton Chekhov. These are but a few of whose company we shall be keeping as we raise the curtain on our first instalment of theatrical history.

Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol (Author), Laurence Olivier (Narrator)

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普希金诗选

Alexander Pushkin (Author), Multiple Narrators (Narrator)

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The Coffin Maker

Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) leads the great names of Russian literature. After completing his education, Pushkin devoted himself to the pleasures of society, alongside his writing. In 1820 he was banished to the Caucasus for writing and promoting liberal views. Deprived of his social life, Pushkin devoted himself to his writing and bequeathed to the world some of the greatest poetry and stories ever written. He met his death in a duel in 1837. The Coffin Maker tells the story of Adrian Prokhoroff, a funeral director who, in a drunken rage, shouts out an invitation to all his customers to a party at his house...and unleashes a scene of grisly horror.

Alexander Pushkin (Author), Cathy Dobson (Narrator)

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