Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Period: Romantic
Catalogue No: NA0263
Barcode: 9781781980408
Release Date: 01/2017

DOSTOYEVSKY, F.M.: Idiot (The) (Unabridged)

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’? 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, and on the charismatic but wilful Nastasya Filippovna. As he paints a vivid picture of Russian society, Dostoyevsky shows how principles conflict with emotions—with tragic results.

Tracklist

Disc 1
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhail - Author
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
1 The Idiot 08:32
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
2 Such omniscient gentlemen are to be found… 09:06
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
3 'But perhaps I do know!' said the official… 09:40
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
4 Chapter 2 12:55
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
5 The prince's conversation seemed simple enough… 11:52
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
6 Chapter 3 06:31
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
7 'Tell me, how do you intend to live meanwhile…' 07:54
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
8 Myshkin heard all this conversation… 06:02
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
Disc 2
1 On the thick sheet of vellum… 08:49
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
2 Chapter 4 11:55
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
3 It happened once at the beginning of winter… 08:03
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
4 Five years of life in Petersburg had followed… 07:41
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
5 Nastasya Filippovna's answer… 09:10
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
6 Chapter 5 10:03
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
7 Alexandra and Aglaia sat down on a little sofa… 10:14
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
8 'There may be two opinions about life in prison,'… 08:00
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
Disc 3
1 'Tell us about the execution,' Adelaida interrupted. 09:33
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
2 Chapter 6 08:08
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
3 'Now this is what happened…' 09:20
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
4 'But it was after the funeral…' 07:03
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
5 Chapter 7 06:42
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
6 As soon as Ganya was left alone… 09:32
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
7 Myshkin turned round quickly… 12:04
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
8 Chapter 8 11:32
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
Disc 4
1 The other gentleman… 10:30
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
2 Varya came back into the room… 09:36
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
3 Chapter 9 11:25
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
4 Ferdyshtchenko took hold of the general… 11:32
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
5 Chapter 10 08:40
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
6 Nastasya Filippovna suddenly laughed… 07:22
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
7 Chapter 11 11:18
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
Disc 5
1 Ganya smiled sarcastically to himself… 06:19
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
2 Chapter 12 12:56
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
3 The meeting with Kolya… 10:40
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
4 Chapter 13 11:33
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
5 At the door of the drawing room… 12:47
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
6 Chapter 14 06:24
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
7 'It has happened to me, friends, as to everyone…' 06:47
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
8 With an extraordinary air of dignity… 06:27
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
Disc 6
1 'As soon as I arrived I sent the bouquet up…' 07:41
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
2 Chapter 15 13:09
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
3 This, friends, is a hundred thousand rubles,'… 11:02
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
4 Chapter 16 08:40
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
5 Ptitisyn bent his head and looked on the ground… 09:23
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
6 'Good heavens!' was heard on all sides. 09:06
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
7 Part Two 07:50
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
8 A month after Myshkin's departure… 06:36
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
Disc 7
1 Lizaveta Prokofyevna too had received… 06:09
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
2 After Myshkin's departure Kolya Ivolgin… 07:58
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
3 Chapter 2 07:43
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
4 Everybody laughed. 06:34
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
5 'I've been lying here for the last three days…' 07:22
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
6 And Lebedyev took Myshkin's hand… 10:12
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
7 Chapter 3 08:04
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
8 It was a big room, lofty and dark… 08:55
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
9 'I tell you it was so,' Rogozhin repeated quietly… 10:19
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
Disc 8
1 'I am very glad of that, Parfyon,' said Myshkin… 06:05
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
2 Chapter 4 13:54
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
3 Chapter 5 09:21
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
4 He thought this, sitting on a seat under a tree… 06:11
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
5 Yes, he was already in the Petrogradski Disctrict… 10:25
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
6 There was a moment at the end of that long… 07:27
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
7 Chapter 6 09:33
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
8 At that moment Kolya entered the verandah… 10:57
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
Disc 9
1 Lizaveta Prokofyevna flushed. 14:34
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
2 Chapter 7 07:13
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
3 Mutual courtesies were exchanged… 07:23
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
4 The excitement and expectation was general… 07:57
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
5 Chapter 8 09:57
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
6 'That - that passes my comprehension!' 06:19
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
7 When Kolya had finished reading… 07:53
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
Disc 10
1 After the speech made by Lebedyevs' nephew… 09:11
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
2 'You are not simply naive, prince, you go beyond…' 09:26
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
3 Chapter 9 09:37
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
4 'This is really insupportable!' Lebedyev's nephew… 09:50
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
5 The girls stood on one side, almost scared… 11:01
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
6 Chapter 10 07:02
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
7 'Now he is choking!' Lizaveta Prokofyevna… 08:25
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
Disc 11
1 'It's late!' Ippolit suddenly got up… 07:29
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
2 Lizaveta Prokofyevna spoke with excitement… 09:19
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
3 Chapter 11 08:26
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
4 From Vera Lebedyev, Myshkin learned… 08:14
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
5 Myshkin began at last to feel not exactly sorry… 08:54
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
6 Late in the evening, after ten o'clock… 08:07
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
7 Chapter 12 14:10
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
8 Part Three 06:43
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
Disc 12
1 At the beginning of our narrative we mentioned… 12:45
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
2 Myshkin really was almost pale… 10:00
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
3 He broke off in confusion. 11:03
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
4 Chapter 2 08:15
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
5 Yevgeny Pavlovitch Radomsky seemed… 09:48
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
6 On the way from the station to the bandstand… 09:35
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
7 Chapter 3 07:26
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
Disc 13
1 Ivan Fyodorovitch, himself, came downstairs… 08:51
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
2 Left alone at the crossroads… 08:17
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
3 The crunch of slow footsteps on the sand… 09:41
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
4 Chapter 4 06:35
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
5 'You've come about something else, too…?' 08:24
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
6 Gavril Ardalionovitch was in a particularly… 09:56
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
7 'It may be true, gentlemen,' observed Myshkin… 11:40
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
8 Chapter 5 07:32
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
Disc 14
1 Vera looked in alarm at the coin… 04:57
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
2 The reading began at last. 10:08
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
3 'Gentlemen,' said Ippolit, suddenly breaking off… 09:36
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
4 Chapter 6 09:03
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
5 'There are people who derive extraordinary…' 11:06
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
6 '"Anyone who attacks individual charity,"…' 10:28
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
7 'The picture represented Christ…' 08:37
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
8 Chapter 7 09:10
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
Disc 15
1 There is, in extreme cases, a pitch… 10:14
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
2 He quickly caught up a glass from the table… 12:07
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
3 Chapter 8 08:21
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
4 Aglaia suddenly crimsoned with pleasure. 08:20
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
5 She did not turn red this time, but turned pale… 12:54
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
6 Chapter 9 14:50
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
Disc 16
1 'I must admit, Lebedyev, this distresses me…' 07:48
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
2 'What folly!' Myshkin said, almost angrily… 06:50
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
3 'For the sake of clearness, I will explain to you…' 06:04
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
4 Chapter 10 10:28
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
5 At last Myshkin came out of the darkness… 05:27
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
6 Part Four 09:12
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
7 Gavril Ardalionovitch had taken the first step… 11:37
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
8 Ganya listened very attentively… 11:09
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
9 Chapter 2 03:35
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
Disc 17
1 At that moment Kolya set a chair for him… 07:21
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
2 Ippolit too felt a qualm… 10:56
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
3 Chapter 3 09:12
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
4 Myshkin observed his visitor, if not with surprise… 09:02
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
5 Lebedyev put on a dignified air. 11:01
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
6 Chapter 4 07:28
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
7 'But did you really…' Myshkin began… 07:52
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
8 The general, of course, had been repeating… 08:16
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
Disc 18
1 'All that is extremely interesting,'… 12:32
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
2 Chapter 5 09:24
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
3 The upshot of it was that they must keep calm… 12:28
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
4 'This is an important matter, though…' 12:09
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
5 'And again, that evening, there was something…' 10:15
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
6 Chapter 6 09:46
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
7 Myshkin was in a fever all night. 06:14
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
Disc 19
1 As he was continually mixing one thing up… 09:50
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
2 Sitting down and looking round, he for his part… 12:55
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
3 Chapter 7 11:27
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
4 The old man evidently wanted to study Myshkin… 09:27
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
5 But at this point an incident took place… 09:49
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
6 She was on the verge of being angry… 11:49
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
7 Chapter 8 08:38
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
Disc 20
1 Just half an hour after the Epanchins' visit… 12:00
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
2 Ippolit went out. 11:53
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
3 Aglaia paused for a moment as though amazed. 11:47
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
4 Chapter 9 08:01
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
5 Thus, we know for a fact that during that… 09:45
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
6 At this point, without mincing matters… 12:47
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
7 Chapter 10 04:14
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
Disc 21
1 Next day Keller called on Myshkin… 14:38
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
2 On the day before the wedding… 14:34
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
3 Chapter 11 08:39
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
4 Rogozhin had not come back… 09:46
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
5 The key was already in his hand. 06:32
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
6 'For if,' Rogozhin began… 10:32
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)
7 Chapter 12: Conclusion 09:14
Gregory, Constantine (Reader)

Total Playing Time: 24:56:25