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10 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die, Vol. 2
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Anna Karenina remains one of the most acclaimed and influential novels ever written. Centered on the tragic affair between the married Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky, the novel weaves together multiple plotlines. Tolstoy’s epic love story is also known for its frequently quoted opening line—”All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
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Classics are known for their timeless quality, their ability to endure through generations and still hold something significant for the modern listener—whether it’s commentary on a long-gone era or an ageless tale of adventure. In this roundup, each story is paired with an exceptional, show-stopping narrator who takes the tale to new heights. While you may have read some of these stories, you’ve certainly never heard them quite like this.
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The Ultimate Classics Collection – Volume One: 15 Novels from Dostoyevsky, Dickens, Tolstoy, Melville, Brontë, & More
- The Brothers Karamazov, Great Expectations, Moby Dick, The Call of the Wild, The Castle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Middlemarch, War and Peace, Wuthering Heights, & More
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and others
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Adjoa Andoh, David Rintoul, and others
- Length: 272 hrs and 13 mins
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The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume One is a continent-hopping, century-spanning collection of 15 essential classic novels by British, American, and Russian authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Stephen Fry, Jason Isaacs, Adjoa Andoh, David Rintoul, and many more.
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The Ultimate Classics Collection – Volume One: 15 Novels from Dostoyevsky, Dickens, Tolstoy, Melville, Brontë, & More
- The Brothers Karamazov, Great Expectations, Moby Dick, The Call of the Wild, The Castle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Middlemarch, War and Peace, Wuthering Heights, & More
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Adjoa Andoh, David Rintoul, Jason Isaacs, Lucy Scott, Robert G. Slade, Daniel Weyman, Jonathan Keeble, full cast
- Length: 272 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 02-24-25
- Language: English
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Anna Karenina
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: David Horovitch
- Length: 38 hrs
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,032
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Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky....
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Beautiful story, amazing narration
- By Marcus Vorwaller on 08-02-08
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Anna Karenina
- Narrated by: David Horovitch
- Length: 38 hrs
- Release date: 02-20-08
- Language: English
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10 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die, Vol. 2
- The Gold-Bug, Romeo and Juliet, Faust, the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the Death of Ivan Ilyich, the Lost World, the Turn of the Screw, the Little Prince, the Picture of Dorian Gray, the Awakening
- By: Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, and others
- Narrated by: David Miles, Luana Marantz, Abigail Reno, and others
- Length: 44 hrs and 49 mins
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This book contains the following works: Edgar Allan Poe: The Gold Bug, William Shakespeare: Romeo And Juliet, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Faust, Mark Twain ...
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10 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die, Vol. 2
- The Gold-Bug, Romeo and Juliet, Faust, the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the Death of Ivan Ilyich, the Lost World, the Turn of the Screw, the Little Prince, the Picture of Dorian Gray, the Awakening
- Narrated by: David Miles, Luana Marantz, Abigail Reno, Simon Jackson, Rick Walz, Kelli Winkler, Paul Gibson, Sharon Plummer
- Length: 44 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 02-18-25
- Language: English
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War and Peace
- By: Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude - translator, Aylmer Maude - translator
- Narrated by: Thandiwe Newton
- Length: 60 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,159
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War and Peace is at once an epic war chronicle and an exploration of everything that make us all human: love and hate, ambition and despair, life and death....
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Wonderful
- By Tad Davis on 11-14-21
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War and Peace
- Narrated by: Thandiwe Newton
- Length: 60 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 11-04-21
- Language: English
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Anna Karenina
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Length: 35 hrs and 35 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13,829
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 12,653
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Leo Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature....
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- By Charles B on 08-27-18
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Anna Karenina
- Narrated by: Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Length: 35 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 07-12-16
- Language: English
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War and Peace
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 61 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit....
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Glad I finally decided to read it
- By Plumeria on 09-25-05
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War and Peace
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 61 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 01-21-05
- Language: English
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War and Peace (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude - translator, Aylmer Maude - translator
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 55 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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In early nineteenth-century Russia, the threat of Napoleon’s invasion looms, and the lives of millions are about to be changed forever....
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Tremendous narration
- By steve thomas on 08-14-20
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War and Peace (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 55 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 03-31-20
- Language: English
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Anna Karenina
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- By: Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrated by: Miranda Pleasence
- Length: 36 hrs and 59 mins
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Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky....
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Happy listeners are all alike
- By Reader on 12-12-20
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Anna Karenina
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Miranda Pleasence
- Length: 36 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 07-30-20
- Language: English
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The Death of Ivan Ilych follows the career of the title character, who does not question his desire to live an "easy, agreeable, gay and always decorous" life, until he is dying....
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Some Things are Better on the Page
- By Roy on 04-12-09
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 02-22-08
- Language: English
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War and Peace
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Zach Barrett
- Length: 67 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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War and Peace is a literary work by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy that mixes fictional narrative with chapters on history and philosophy. It was first...
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War and Peace
- Narrated by: Zach Barrett
- Length: 67 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 12-12-24
- Language: English
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War and Peace, Volume 1
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 30 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,639
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,202
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War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature....
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A Truly Great Book and a Truly Astounding Narrator
- By A Midwesterner in Jersey on 05-18-09
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War and Peace, Volume 1
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 30 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 12-31-06
- Language: English
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A Confession
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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At this time I began to write, from vanity, greed, and pride. In my writings I did exactly as in life. In order to possess the glory and the wealth for whose sake I wrote, it was necessary to conceal the good, and to display the bad. And so I did....
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Wow
- By David Murphy on 05-25-16
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A Confession
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 01-31-11
- Language: English
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Hailed as one of the world’s masterpieces of psychological realism, this is the story of a worldly careerist who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought....
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Elegant, simple, and true
- By Alexandria on 09-22-13
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 07-28-11
- Language: English
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Krieg und Frieden
- By: Leo Tolstoi
- Narrated by: Ulrich Noethen
- Length: 66 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Während Napoleon ganz Europa mit Krieg überzieht, wird in Petersburg getanzt. Doch langsam, aber sicher treiben die Familien Russlands einem Schicksal ...
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Krieg und Frieden
- Narrated by: Ulrich Noethen
- Length: 66 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 03-17-25
- Language: German
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The Best Russian Short Stories
- By: Count Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Alexander Pushkin, and others
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 49
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 42
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A brilliant collection of short stories by some of Russia's best writers....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing Narration
- By Anne on 09-08-16
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The Best Russian Short Stories
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 06-16-14
- Language: English
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Father Sergius & Other Short Stories
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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While Tolstoy was able to sustain complex and moving plots through large novels, his ability as a writer also is demonstrated in his many short stories....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Unusual and enjoyable
- By Tad Davis on 06-17-11
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Father Sergius & Other Short Stories
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 02-13-09
- Language: English
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Anna Karenina
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Frankie Porter, Tim Campbell, Sebastian Brown, and others
- Length: 39 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Anna Karenina, a literary masterpiece by Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy.
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Anna Karenina
- Narrated by: Frankie Porter, Tim Campbell, Sebastian Brown, Jacob Daniels, Claire Storey, Maria Nicola Johnson
- Length: 39 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 10-29-24
- Language: English
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A Confession
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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A Confession, or My Confession, is a short work on the subject of melancholia, philosophy and religion by the acclaimed Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. It...
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Excellent book
- By Chris Dostie on 01-06-25
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A Confession
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 12-31-24
- Language: English
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession
- By: Leo Tolstoy, Peter Carson - translator
- Narrated by: Ken Kliban
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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A pairing of Tolstoy's most spiritual and existential works of fiction and nonfiction from the renowned translator of Turgenev and Chekhov....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great Tolstoy Intro; Ilyich Narration is Painful
- By Rich on 04-03-16
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession
- Narrated by: Ken Kliban
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 07-09-14
- Language: English
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Guerra y paz
- By: Leon Tolstói, Joaquín Fernández-Valdés - traductor
- Narrated by: Mario Gas
- Length: 66 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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"No es una novela, aún menos un poema y aún menos una crónica histórica": así presentaba Lev N. Tolstói su monumental Guerra y paz, que, publicada por...
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Excelente narración
- By Amazon Customer on 12-04-24
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Guerra y paz
- Narrated by: Mario Gas
- Length: 66 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 02-27-24
- Language: Spanish
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