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The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: Luke Thompson

Length: 43 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Luke Thompson, best known for his role in the hit Netflix drama Bridgerton. This definitive recording includes an introduction by David McDuff.

The murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with... Read more

The Gambler

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Art imitates life in this brilliant psychological study of a compulsive gambler, modeled on Dostoevsky's own tendencies. Like so many characters in Dostoevsky's novels, Alexei, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general, is trying to break through the wall of the established order and the human condition itself, but... Read more

The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: John de Lancie, Sharon Gless, Harry Hamlin, Kai...

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Dostoyevsky’s titanic masterpiece The Brothers Karamazov is here adapted into a spellbinding full-cast drama by playwright David Fishelson.

The passionate Karamazov brothers spring to life, led by their rogue of a father, who entertains himself by drinking, womanizing, and pitting his three sons against each other. The men have plenty to fight... Read more

The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: John de Lancie, Sharon Gless, Harry Hamlin, Kai...

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Dostoyevsky’s titanic novels are transformed into spellbinding drama. The passionate Karamazov brothers spring to life, led by their rogue of a father, who entertains himself by drinking, womanizing, and pitting his three sons against each other. In The Idiot, meet the childlike Prince Myshkin, as he returns to the decadent social whirl of St.... Read more

Devils

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 28 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Exiled to four years in Siberia, but hailed by the end of his life as a saint, prophet, and genius, Fyodor Dostoevsky holds an exalted place among the best of the great Russian authors. One of Dostoevsky's five major novels, Devils follows the travails of a small provincial town beset by a band of modish radicals - and in so doing presents a... Read more

The Gambler

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: Firdous Bamji

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, including the classic Crime and Punishment, secured the great Russian writer an exalted position in the literary pantheon of 20th-century authors. The Gambler stands as one of the literary genius' most highly regarded shorter works. At the casino in Roulettenburg, Germany, a Russian family awaits word that a... Read more

The Idiot

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 26 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Just two years after completing Crime and Punishment, which explored the mind of a murderer, Fyodor Dostoevsky produced another masterpiece: The Idiot. This time the author portrays a truly beautiful soul and one of Dostoevsky's greatest characters—Prince Muishkin, a saintly, Christ-like, yet deeply human figure.



The story begins when Muishkin... Read more

Crime and Punishment

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 25 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the novel that ensured Fyodor Dostoevsky's place as a giant of Russian literature. First published in 1866, this legendary work continues to enthrall readers around the world and earn Dostoevsky legions of fans with every printing.

Timeless, and breathtaking in scope, Crime and Punishment - the story of a young Russian intellectual's... Read more

Notes from a Dead House

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From renowned translators Richard Pevear and Lindsay Volokhonsky comes a new translation—certain to become the definitive version—of the first great prison memoir, a fictionalized account of Fyodor Dostoevsky's life-changing penal servitude in Siberia.Sentenced to death for advocating socialism in 1849, Dostoevsky served a commuted sentence of... Read more

The Heavenly Christmas Tree

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: Max Bollinger

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

I am a novelist, and I suppose I have made up this story. I write 'I suppose,' though I know for a fact that I have made it up, but yet I keep fancying that it must have happened somewhere at some time, that it must have happened on Christmas Eve in some great town in a time of terrible frost. Read in English, unabridged. Read more

Tales of Christmas

By: Anton Chekhov, Willa Cather & Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: Max Bollinger

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Christmas is a special time of the year. It brings so many memories of happiness, childhood mischief, reflection and forgiveness. This selection of Christmas stories brings some of the best tales from around the world to share the magic, wisdom and love of Christmas Time. The collection includes: The Heavenly Christmas Tree by Fyodor... Read more

The Peasant Marey

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: Max Bollinger

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Dostoyevsky skilfully paints a portrait of a character who manages to recall a childhood memory from twenty years ago and by doing so he alters the course of his life and even enables him to completely free his heart from hatred and anger. Read in English, unabridged. Read more

An Honest Thief

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: Max Bollinger

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

There are thieves and there are thieves. And I have happened to come across an honest thief. But how can a thief be honest? One of Dostoyevskiy's short masterpieces tells a story rich in psychological insight into human behaviour, emotion and often irrational relationships. Read in English, unabridged. Read more

Tales of Dostoyevsky

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: Max Bollinger

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Dostoyevsky is the only psychologist from whom I had something to learn', remarked Friedrich Nietzsche. 'He ranks among the most beautiful strokes of fortune in my life'. Discover the universal truths and wisdoms of Dostoyevsky in this volume of Dostoyevsky's tales including: An Honest Thief, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, The Peasant Marey. Read... Read more

Fairy Tales for Adults Volume 7

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky & Beatrix Potter

Narrated by: Max Bollinger

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

This volume offers a contrasting selection of stories and tales from the master of psychology Fyodor Dostoyevsky and heart warming story teller Beatrix Potter. The collection includes: An Honest Thief, The Peasant Marey by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies by Beatrix Potter.... Read more

The Possessed [Russian Edition]

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: Yuriy Zaborovskiy

Length: 22 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The Possessed, also called Demons, is Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel about life in Russia at the end of the 19th century. In this highly political novel, Dostoevsky portrays the revolutionaries as demons or devils as they plot ruin and eventually turn on each other. Read more

The Idiot [Russian Edition]

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: Vyacheslav Gerasimov

Length: 27 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which center around a cast of brilliantly realized characters and which ultimately lead to tragedy, he emerges as a unique combination of the Christian ideal of perfection and Dostoevsky's own views, afflictions,... Read more

Crime and Punishment [Russian Edition]

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: Vyacheslav Gerasimov

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, a former student, lives in a tiny garret on the top floor of a run-down apartment building in St. Petersburg. He is sickly, dressed in rags, short on money, and talks to himself, but he is also handsome, proud, and intelligent. He is contemplating committing an awful crime, but the nature of the crime is not yet... Read more

Crime and Punishment

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: Constantine Gregory

Length: 22 hours

Abridged: No

A century after it first appeared, Crime and Punishment remains one of the most gripping psychological thrillers. A poverty-striken young man, seeing his family making sacrifices for him, is faced with an opportunity to solve his financial problems with one simple but horrifying act: the murder of a pawnbroker. She is, he feels, just a parasite... Read more

The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: Constantine Gregory

Length: 37 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a titanic figure among the world’s great authors, and The Brothers Karamazov is often hailed as his finest novel. A masterpiece on many levels, it transcends the boundaries of a gripping murder mystery to become a moving account of the battle between love and hate, faith and despair, compassion and cruelty, good and evil. Read more

The Idiot

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: Constantine Gregory

Length: 24 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

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 1�7 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,... Read more

The Idiot (Part 03 and 04)

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: Alia Makki & Jan Moorehouse

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Idiot (Part 03 and 04) as you haven't seen it before -- in a remarkable illustrated edition.ﻄ1�7/em>A brilliant but broken man returns to Russia—and into a whirlwind of passion, betrayal, and madness.Prince Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin arrives in St. Petersburg after years in Switzerland, where he was treated for epilepsy and a fragile mind. He is a man... Read more