Audiobooks by Valery Bryusov

The Foundations of Fiction - Dystopian Audiobook

"In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving. Success undoubtedly builds success and in literary terms we can more politely say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and the surest way to reach a hungry readership is to build on the fortune and flair of your literary colleagues. We all fear the world will end badly. Even worse that we might be caught up in it. In this volume our authors summon up stories which illustrate and flavour our thinking and imaginings on just how a society would reach that precipice, how it would ultimately be.01 - Foundations of Fiction - Dystopian - An Introduction2 - A Dream of Armageddon by H G Wells3 - The Park of Kings by Alexander Kuprin4 - Into the Sun by Robert Duncan Milne5 - The Cloud-Men by Owen Oliver6 - The Republic of the Southern Cross by Valery Bryusov7 - The End of the World by Simon Newcomb8 - The World's Last Cataclysm by Robert Duncan Milne9 - Within An Ace of the End of the World by Robert Barr10 - Christmas Formula by Stella Benson11 - The Repairer of Reputations by Robert W Chambers"

Alexander Kuprin, H.G. Wells, Owen Oliver, Robert Barr, Robert Duncan Milne, Robert W Chambers, Simon Newcomb, Stella Benson, Valery Bryusov (Author), Christopher Ragland, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Robert Maskell (Narrator)

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The Top 10 Short Stories - The 20th Century - The Russians

"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 we examine Russians authors of the 20th Century. Whether it is under the despotic boot of Czars or the authoritarian boot of Communism, the imagination and ideas of such authors as Leo Tolstoy, Leonid Andreyev, Maxin Gorky, Mikhail Bulgakov cut through with razor sharp prose that adds genius to each and every name. 1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - The 20th Century - The Russians - An Introduction 2 - Aloysha the Pot by Leo Tolstoy 3 - Morphine by Mikhail Bulgakov 4 - Kasimir Stanislavovitch by Ivan Bunin 5 - Her Lover by Maxim Gorky 6 - Anathema by Alexander Kuprin 7 - The Marseillaise by Leonid Andreyev 8 - The Republic of the Southern Cross by Valery Bryusov 9 - The Duel by Nikolai Teleshov 10 - The Revolutionist by Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev 11 - My First Goose by Isaac Babel"

Alexander Kuprin, Isaac Babel, Ivan Bunin, Leo Tolstoy, Leonid Andreyev, Maxim Gorky, Mikhail Bulgakov, Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev, Nikolai Teleshov, Valery Bryusov (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Mark Rice-Oxley, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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The Republic of the Southern Cross

"Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov was born on 13th December 1873 into a merchant's family in Moscow. His parents did little to involve themselves with his upbringing and Bryusov seems to have spent long periods immersed in books until studying in two private Moscow gymnasia between 1885 and 1893.Whilst a student at Moscow State University he completed translations of the French Symbolists and some of Edgar Allan Poe. Bryusov, influenced by both the Symbolist and Decadent movements, also began to publish his own poems. With the appearance of 'Tertia Vigilia' he became acknowledged by other Symbolists as an authority in matters of art and then, in 1904, he became the editor of 'The Balance', the influential literary magazine. With his poems gradually being seen as outdated he worked harder at prose and two historical novels 'The Altar of Victory' (regarding life in Ancient Rome) and 'The Fiery Angel' (based in 16th century Germany) brought him much recognition as did a series of science fiction short stories. Over the decades he also translated authors as diverse as Hugo, Racine, Byron, Verlaine, Goethe and Virgil.After the 1917 Revolution Bryusov supported the Bolsheviks and was given a position in the cultural ministry of the new state. For his Russian translation of the Armenian folk epic 'David of Sasun,' he was designated the People's Poet of Armenia in 1923. Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov died on 9th October 1924. He was 50."

Valery Bryusov (Author), Elliot Fitzpatrick (Narrator)

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