Author: Ivan Turgenev, Constance Garnett
Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini
Unabridged: 2 hr 33 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Reluctant Poet, Inc.
Published: 01/05/2021
Categories: Fiction, Classic, Literary Fiction
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818–1883) was the first Russian writer to gain a wide reputation in Europe. His connections with reform groups in Russia led to his arrest and one-month imprisonment in St. Petersburg. In 1879 the honorary degree of doctor of civil law was conferred upon him by the University of Oxford.
Edoardo Ballerini is an American writer, director, film producer and actor. He has won many awards for his audiobook narration; within only a few years after beginning his narrating career, he won several AudioFile Earphones Awards for his work, including Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve: How The World Became Modern, Jodi Picoult’s The Storyteller and Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins. He narrated Kenzaburo Oe’s Nobel Prize Winning Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, Joseph Finder’s The Moscow Club as well as works by John Edward and Daniel Stashower. In television and film, he is best known for his role in The Sopranos, 24, I Shot Andy Warhol, Dinner Rush and Romeo Must Die. The silky-voiced Ballerini is trained in theater and continues to do much work on stage.
Constance Garnett (1862–1946) translated the works of numerous Russian authors, including Tolstoy, Gogol, Pushkin, and Turgenev.
A complete tour-de-force of masterful writing. I am amazed that anyone could pack such a punch in short fiction but Ivan Turgenev does it again and again in this collection.......more
A really great collection. I love Turgenev's writing and can't wait to read more by him.......more
I hereby announce myself in love with Russian authors 😊......more
Absolutely superb stories! So good that I don't know which one would be my favourite. As it says on the back of the book, 'psychologically acute, subtly and sometimes bitterly comic, these six stories all display the elegance and ironic clarity of Turgenev's finest writing.' Next on the list, Father......more
“Narrator Edoardo Ballerini gives Turgenev’s classic novella a wonderfully expressive reading…The novella splendidly describes youthful infatuation and has an unexpected ending that breaks the young man’s heart. The listener definitely feels the young man’s pain. For those who are familiar with Turgenev’s works, at least it doesn’t end like Mumu. Ballerini is quite expressive, and his delivery conveys some of the breathlessness of the adolescent. His baritone gives subtly different voices to the several characters in the story and is just as skilled in reading the narrative.” Audiofile
“One of the most perfect things ever written.” The Guardian (London)