Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Period: Romantic
Catalogue No: NA830612
Barcode: 9789626343067
Release Date: 02/2004

DOSTOYEVSKY, F.: Brothers Karamazov (The) (Abridged)

Tracklist

Disc 1
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhail - Author
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
1Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov04:18
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
2You can easily imagine what a father such a man could be05:20
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
3Very shortly after getting his four-year-old Mitya off his hands03:32
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
4It happened that the old lady died soon after this05:54
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
5Alyosha was only twenty03:58
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
6At the time of Yefim Petrovitich's death03:17
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
7'Do you know,' he used often to say03:50
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
8Some of my readers may imagine03:53
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
9It was a warm, bright day the end of August02:08
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
10Dimitri Fyodorovitch, a young man of eight and twenty03:41
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
11'They all blame me, all of them!'03:51
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
12'Dimitri Fyodorovitch', yelled Fyodor Pavlovitch suddenly02:27
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
13Alyosha helped Father Zossima to his bedroom03:21
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
14The house of Fyodor Pavlovitch was far from being in the centre of the town02:58
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
15There was one circumstance which struck Grigory particularly02:53
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
16Alyosha set off from the monastery03:32
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
17I was leading a wild life then04:20
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
18Suddenly the new major arrive to take command of the battalion02:47
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
19'Stop Dimitri,' said Alyosha04:12
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
20'Stop, Dimitri,' Alyosha interrupted again04:30
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
21'And what then?'04:35
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
Disc 2
1He found his father still at table04:14
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
2'Get along with you!'02:55
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
3Dimitri suddenly reapeared in the drawing-room03:05
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
4It was by now seven o'clock, and it was getting dark04:08
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)
7There was a sudden gleam in her eyes.03:35
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
8It was not much more than three-quarters of a mile02:38
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
9Alyosha described all that had happened03:43
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
10Alyosha was roused early, before daybreak04:09
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
11And bending down to Alyosha02:56
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
12Just after he had crossed the square04:34
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
13The boy waited for him without budging04:05
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
14When Alyosha entered the drawing-room04:35
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
15'Alexey Fyodorovitch, you speak'04:09
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
16He went out of the room without saying goodbye02:31
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
17He was really grieved in a way he had seldom been before04:00
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
18Alyosha looked attentively at him04:29
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
1Alyosha's heart was trembling03:36
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
2Alyosha was delighted03:34
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
3Ivan was on his way home to Fyodor Pavlovitch's house04:14
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)
8And in the same nervous frenzy, too, he spoke05:08
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
9The whole household came out to take leave04:05
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
10Grushenka lived in the busiest part of town04:53
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
11She gaily sat down beside Alyosha on the sofa,05:24
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
12But Dimitri, to whom Grushenka03:57
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
13Mitya formed a plan of action:04:11
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
14At that very moment Grigory waked up on his bed of sickness02:59
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
15Fenya, the housemaid, was sitting in the kitchen05:21
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
16It was a little more than twenty versts to Mokroe,05:50
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
17With his long rapid strides04:10
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
18Mitya had been, all this time, holding in his hand04:18
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
19Both the Poles rose from their seats with a deeply offended air03:34
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
Disc 4
1But Grushenka suddenly lost all patience04:08
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
2What followed was almost an orgy, a feast to which all were welcome04:24
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
3Yet there was a ray of light and hope in his darkness04:18
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
4'The lady's been drinking.'03:19
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
5Grushenka opened her eyes04:51
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
6Pyotr Ilyitch Perhotin, to whom Dimitri had pawned his pistol02:50
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
7Our police captain, Mihail Makarovitch Mararov03:22
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
8Pyotr Ilyitch was simply dumbfounded05:46
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
9The deputy police inspector of the town04:11
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
10And so Mitya sat looking wildly at the people round him04:06
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
11'Alive? He's alive?' cried Mitya04:20
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
12'Did I exclaim that?'04:03
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
13At that moment another unexpected scene followed04:28
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)
16Mitya waited gloomily05:04
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
17Though Mitya spoke sullenly04:17
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
18And so, on that frosty, snowy, and windy day in November04:37
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
19But Kolya did not hear her.05:25
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
Disc 5
1Next came the account of Mitya's sudden determination04:13
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
2Mitya smiled mournfully, almost dreamily04:08
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
3Something utterly unexpected and amazing to Mitya followed04:25
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
4It was a long time before they could persuade him03:48
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
5Mitya uttered his sudden monologue03:40
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
6For some seconds Mitya stood as though thunderstruck04:03
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
7'Gentlemen' he began03:56
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
8'Allow me to inquire' observed the prosecutor at last04:26
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
9Both the lawyers laughed aloud05:04
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
10'You'd better show us the remains of it.'03:43
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
11The examination of the witnesses began03:47
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
12The Poles, too, were examined04:10
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
13Ippolit Kirillovitch was very well satisfied with this piece of evidence03:42
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
14When the protocol had been signed04:57
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
15It was the beginning of November04:14
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
16It happened that July03:20
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
17Dardanelov was a middle-aged bachelor03:19
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
18And so, on that frosty, snowy, and windy day in November04:37
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
19But 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)
2One day he flew at them all as they were coming out of school05:17
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
3The room inhabited by the family of the retired captain03:48
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
4Krassotkin's entrance made a general sensation04:56
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
5Ilusha could not speak04:18
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
6When the doctor came out of the room06:15
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
7Alyosha went towards the cathedral square04:23
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
8'He doesn't love Katerina Ivanovna,' said Alyosha firmly03:12
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
9Alyosha sat plunged in thought, considering something03:25
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
10It was quite late when Alyosha rang at the prison gate03:15
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
11He went up to Alyosha exictedly and kissed him03:08
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
12'Of that later; now I must speak of something else04:33
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
13On the way to Ivan he had to pass the house where Katerina Ivanovna was living04:58
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
14'Who is the murderer then, according to you?'05:36
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
15This was the third time that Ivan had been to see Smerdyakov04:18
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
16'Tell me now, why did you send me then to Tchermashnya?'03:48
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
17Later, Smerdyakov had been discharged from the hospital04:25
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
18Smerdyakov took the rag from his eyes05:58
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
Disc 7
1Ivan did not go home04:27
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
2When he was half-way there04:01
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
3Smerdyakov was not in the least scared03:54
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
4Ivan stepped up to the table06:09
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
5'What more is there to tell!'06:05
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
6He stopped. Ivan had listeded all the time04:02
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
7'I don't want it,' Smerdyakov articulated in a shaking voice03:54
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
8A loud, persistent knocking was suddenly heard at the window04:44
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
9Alyosha ran to the washing stand06:05
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
10At ten o'clock in the morning of the day following the events03:04
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
11At last the President opened the case of the murder of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karmazov03:14
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
12One peculiar characteristic of the case03:56
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
13Grigory remained silent04:13
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
14It came as quite a surprise even to Alyosha himself04:39
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
15Katerina Ivanovna was called to the witness box04:04
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
16I am approaching the sudden catastrophe03:59
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
17I may note that he had been called before Alyosha03:44
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
18The usher of the court took the whole roll04:13
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
Disc 8
1The whole court was thrown into confusion04:37
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
2They asked Mitya whether he admitted having written the letter05:22
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
3Ippolit Kirillovitch began his speech03:29
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
4'But to return to the eldest son.'03:56
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
5At this point Ippolit Kirillovitch broke off03:13
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
6'I shall be told that he shamed illness'03:27
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
7As Fetyukovitc, the Council for the Defence began his speech04:18
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 suicide03:30
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
11'It's not only the accumulation of facts03:25
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
12'Gentlemen of the jury, you remember that awful night04:36
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
13This was how Fetyukovitch concluded his speech04:38
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
14Very early, at nine o'clock in the morning04:18
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
15He hurried to the hospital where Mitya was now lying04:10
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
16At that instant Katya appeared in the doorway.05:06
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
17He really was late04:02
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
18They reached the church at last04:41
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
19They all stood still by the big stone04:46
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)

Total Playing Time: 10:34:45