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Author(s): Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhail
Reader(s): Pigott-Smith, Tim
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Period: Romantic
Catalogue No: NA830612
Barcode: 9789626343067
Release Date: 02/2004
DOSTOYEVSKY, F.: Brothers Karamazov (The) (Abridged)
Dostoyevsky’s famous and well-regarded 1880 novel The Brothers Karamazov is a tale of bitter family rivalries. Three brothers live in a small, typical Russian town. Their father, a selfish, cunning, lascivious figure with little love for them, tries to maintain his control over them and anyone who comes within his orbit. The roots of dissent, unhappiness, hope, ambition and desire run deep in this community as everywhere, and Dostoyevsky brings them to the fore with an unexpected death. The atmospheric spell of this great work of Russian literature is maintained throughout by a masterly reading by Tim Pigott-Smith.
Tracklist
Disc 1
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhail - Author
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
|  | 1 | Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov | 04:18 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 2 | You can easily imagine what a father such a man could be | 05:20 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 3 | Very shortly after getting his four-year-old Mitya off his hands | 03:32 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 4 | It happened that the old lady died soon after this | 05:54 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 5 | Alyosha was only twenty | 03:58 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 6 | At the time of Yefim Petrovitich's death | 03:17 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 7 | 'Do you know,' he used often to say | 03:50 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 8 | Some of my readers may imagine | 03:53 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 9 | It was a warm, bright day the end of August | 02:08 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 10 | Dimitri Fyodorovitch, a young man of eight and twenty | 03:41 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 11 | 'They all blame me, all of them!' | 03:51 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 12 | 'Dimitri Fyodorovitch', yelled Fyodor Pavlovitch suddenly | 02:27 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 13 | Alyosha helped Father Zossima to his bedroom | 03:21 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 14 | The house of Fyodor Pavlovitch was far from being in the centre of the town | 02:58 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 15 | There was one circumstance which struck Grigory particularly | 02:53 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 16 | Alyosha set off from the monastery | 03:32 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 17 | I was leading a wild life then | 04:20 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 18 | Suddenly the new major arrive to take command of the battalion | 02:47 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 19 | 'Stop Dimitri,' said Alyosha | 04:12 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 20 | 'Stop, Dimitri,' Alyosha interrupted again | 04:30 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 21 | 'And what then?' | 04:35 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
Disc 2
| | 1 | He found his father still at table | 04:14 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 2 | 'Get along with you!' | 02:55 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 3 | Dimitri suddenly reapeared in the drawing-room | 03:05 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 4 | It was by now seven o'clock, and it was getting dark | 04:08 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 5 | 'I've known of it a long time;' | 04:05 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 6 | 'This is the first time we've met, Alexey Fyodorovitch,' | 05:14 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 7 | There was a sudden gleam in her eyes. | 03:35 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 8 | It was not much more than three-quarters of a mile | 02:38 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 9 | Alyosha described all that had happened | 03:43 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 10 | Alyosha was roused early, before daybreak | 04:09 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 11 | And bending down to Alyosha | 02:56 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 12 | Just after he had crossed the square | 04:34 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 13 | The boy waited for him without budging | 04:05 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 14 | When Alyosha entered the drawing-room | 04:35 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 15 | 'Alexey Fyodorovitch, you speak' | 04:09 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 16 | He went out of the room without saying goodbye | 02:31 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 17 | He was really grieved in a way he had seldom been before | 04:00 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 18 | Alyosha looked attentively at him | 04:29 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 19 | 'You've pierced me to the heart,' | 02:27 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 20 | 'Have you heard our news?' | 03:35 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 21 | 'The air is fresh,' | 03:59 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
Disc 3
| | 1 | Alyosha's heart was trembling | 03:36 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 2 | Alyosha was delighted | 03:34 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 3 | Ivan was on his way home to Fyodor Pavlovitch's house | 04:14 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 4 | 'Why don't you go to Tchermashnya, sir?' | 03:40 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 5 | 'I'm bound to admit the fact, | 04:14 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 6 | 'You know yourself why he'll come.' | 03:10 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 7 | 'You seem to be a perfect idiot,' | 02:50 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 8 | And in the same nervous frenzy, too, he spoke | 05:08 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 9 | The whole household came out to take leave | 04:05 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 10 | Grushenka lived in the busiest part of town | 04:53 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 11 | She gaily sat down beside Alyosha on the sofa, | 05:24 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 12 | But Dimitri, to whom Grushenka | 03:57 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 13 | Mitya formed a plan of action: | 04:11 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 14 | At that very moment Grigory waked up on his bed of sickness | 02:59 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 15 | Fenya, the housemaid, was sitting in the kitchen | 05:21 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 16 | It was a little more than twenty versts to Mokroe, | 05:50 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 17 | With his long rapid strides | 04:10 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 18 | Mitya had been, all this time, holding in his hand | 04:18 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 19 | Both the Poles rose from their seats with a deeply offended air | 03:34 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
Disc 4
| | 1 | But Grushenka suddenly lost all patience | 04:08 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 2 | What followed was almost an orgy, a feast to which all were welcome | 04:24 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 3 | Yet there was a ray of light and hope in his darkness | 04:18 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 4 | 'The lady's been drinking.' | 03:19 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 5 | Grushenka opened her eyes | 04:51 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 6 | Pyotr Ilyitch Perhotin, to whom Dimitri had pawned his pistol | 02:50 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 7 | Our police captain, Mihail Makarovitch Mararov | 03:22 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 8 | Pyotr Ilyitch was simply dumbfounded | 05:46 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 9 | The deputy police inspector of the town | 04:11 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 10 | And so Mitya sat looking wildly at the people round him | 04:06 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 11 | 'Alive? He's alive?' cried Mitya | 04:20 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 12 | 'Did I exclaim that?' | 04:03 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 13 | At that moment another unexpected scene followed | 04:28 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 14 | 'You don't know how you encourage us' | 03:44 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 15 | 'That's how we've treated you from the beginning' | 03:48 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 16 | Mitya waited gloomily | 05:04 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 17 | Though Mitya spoke sullenly | 04:17 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 18 | And so, on that frosty, snowy, and windy day in November | 04:37 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 19 | But Kolya did not hear her. | 05:25 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
Disc 5
| | 1 | Next came the account of Mitya's sudden determination | 04:13 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 2 | Mitya smiled mournfully, almost dreamily | 04:08 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 3 | Something utterly unexpected and amazing to Mitya followed | 04:25 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 4 | It was a long time before they could persuade him | 03:48 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 5 | Mitya uttered his sudden monologue | 03:40 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 6 | For some seconds Mitya stood as though thunderstruck | 04:03 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 7 | 'Gentlemen' he began | 03:56 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 8 | 'Allow me to inquire' observed the prosecutor at last | 04:26 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 9 | Both the lawyers laughed aloud | 05:04 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 10 | 'You'd better show us the remains of it.' | 03:43 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 11 | The examination of the witnesses began | 03:47 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 12 | The Poles, too, were examined | 04:10 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 13 | Ippolit Kirillovitch was very well satisfied with this piece of evidence | 03:42 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 14 | When the protocol had been signed | 04:57 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 15 | It was the beginning of November | 04:14 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 16 | It happened that July | 03:20 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 17 | Dardanelov was a middle-aged bachelor | 03:19 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 18 | And so, on that frosty, snowy, and windy day in November | 04:37 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 19 | But Kolya did not hear her. | 05:25 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
Disc 6
| | 1 | 'Listen, Karamazov, I'll tell you all about it.' | 03:52 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 2 | One day he flew at them all as they were coming out of school | 05:17 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 3 | The room inhabited by the family of the retired captain | 03:48 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 4 | Krassotkin's entrance made a general sensation | 04:56 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 5 | Ilusha could not speak | 04:18 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 6 | When the doctor came out of the room | 06:15 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 7 | Alyosha went towards the cathedral square | 04:23 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 8 | 'He doesn't love Katerina Ivanovna,' said Alyosha firmly | 03:12 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 9 | Alyosha sat plunged in thought, considering something | 03:25 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 10 | It was quite late when Alyosha rang at the prison gate | 03:15 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 11 | He went up to Alyosha exictedly and kissed him | 03:08 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 12 | 'Of that later; now I must speak of something else | 04:33 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 13 | On the way to Ivan he had to pass the house where Katerina Ivanovna was living | 04:58 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 14 | 'Who is the murderer then, according to you?' | 05:36 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 15 | This was the third time that Ivan had been to see Smerdyakov | 04:18 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 16 | 'Tell me now, why did you send me then to Tchermashnya?' | 03:48 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 17 | Later, Smerdyakov had been discharged from the hospital | 04:25 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 18 | Smerdyakov took the rag from his eyes | 05:58 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
Disc 7
| | 1 | Ivan did not go home | 04:27 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 2 | When he was half-way there | 04:01 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 3 | Smerdyakov was not in the least scared | 03:54 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 4 | Ivan stepped up to the table | 06:09 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 5 | 'What more is there to tell!' | 06:05 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 6 | He stopped. Ivan had listeded all the time | 04:02 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 7 | 'I don't want it,' Smerdyakov articulated in a shaking voice | 03:54 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 8 | A loud, persistent knocking was suddenly heard at the window | 04:44 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 9 | Alyosha ran to the washing stand | 06:05 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 10 | At ten o'clock in the morning of the day following the events | 03:04 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 11 | At last the President opened the case of the murder of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karmazov | 03:14 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 12 | One peculiar characteristic of the case | 03:56 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 13 | Grigory remained silent | 04:13 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 14 | It came as quite a surprise even to Alyosha himself | 04:39 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 15 | Katerina Ivanovna was called to the witness box | 04:04 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 16 | I am approaching the sudden catastrophe | 03:59 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 17 | I may note that he had been called before Alyosha | 03:44 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 18 | The usher of the court took the whole roll | 04:13 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
Disc 8
| | 1 | The whole court was thrown into confusion | 04:37 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 2 | They asked Mitya whether he admitted having written the letter | 05:22 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 3 | Ippolit Kirillovitch began his speech | 03:29 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 4 | 'But to return to the eldest son.' | 03:56 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 5 | At this point Ippolit Kirillovitch broke off | 03:13 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 6 | 'I shall be told that he shamed illness' | 03:27 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 7 | As Fetyukovitc, the Council for the Defence began his speech | 04:18 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 8 | 'But I shall be asked' | 04:53 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 9 | 'Allow me, gentlemen of the jury, to remind you' | 02:57 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 10 | 'In the first place we have Smerdyakov's sudden suicide | 03:30 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 11 | 'It's not only the accumulation of facts | 03:25 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 12 | 'Gentlemen of the jury, you remember that awful night | 04:36 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 13 | This was how Fetyukovitch concluded his speech | 04:38 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 14 | Very early, at nine o'clock in the morning | 04:18 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 15 | He hurried to the hospital where Mitya was now lying | 04:10 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 16 | At that instant Katya appeared in the doorway. | 05:06 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 17 | He really was late | 04:02 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 18 | They reached the church at last | 04:41 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
| | 19 | They all stood still by the big stone | 04:46 |
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
Total Playing Time: 10:34:45