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The Diary of a Madman, and Other Russian Sketches audiobook

  • By: Nikolai Gogol
  • Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
  • Category: Classics, Fiction
  • Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2019
  • Language: English
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The Diary of a Madman, and Other Russian Sketches Audiobook Summary

Centering on the picaresque realism of Nikolai Gogol’s (1809-1852) mid-nineteenth-century visions of the extraordinary in everyday life, this collection mines the ambiance and mind of pre-Revolutionary Russia. These seven stories take us from the Miracle Mile of St. Petersburg’s Nevsky Prospekt, and a summer night in a Ukrainian village, to the fantastical psychological geographies of fathers, sons, and madmen. Augmenting Gogol’s visions are two disturbing tales by the foremost storyteller of Russia’s “Silver Age” Leonid Andreyev (1871-1919), and a coda from one of Anton Chekhov’s (1860-1904) stable of memorable characters.

Contents include:

Nevsky Prospekt – Nikolai GogolThe Diary of a Madman – Nikolai Gogol Silence – Leonid AndreyevMay Night or The Drowned Girl – Nikolai Gogol Laughter – Leonid AndreyevThe Portrait – Nikolai Gogol On the Harmfulness of Smoking Tobacco – Anton Chekhov

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The Diary of a Madman, and Other Russian Sketches Audiobook Narrator

Stefan Rudnicki is the narrator of The Diary of a Madman, and Other Russian Sketches audiobook that was written by Nikolai Gogol

Stefan Rudnicki is an award winning audiobook narrator, director and producer. He was born in Poland and now resides in Studio City, California. He has narrated more than three hundred audiobooks and has participated in over a thousand as a writer, producer, or director. He is a recipient of multiple Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as a Grammy Award, a Bram Stoker Award, and a Ray Bradbury Award. He received AudioFile’s award for 2008 Best Voice in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Along with a cast of other narrators, Rudnicki has read a number of Orson Scott Card’s best-selling science fiction novels. He worked extensively with many other science fiction authors, including David Weber and Ben Bova. In reviewing the twentieth anniversary edition audiobook of Card’s Ender’s Game, Publishers Weekly stated, “Rudnicki, with his lulling, sonorous voice, does a fine job articulating Ender’s inner struggle between the kind, peaceful boy he wants to be and the savage, violent actions he is frequently forced to take.” Rudnicki is also a stage actor and director.

About the Author(s) of The Diary of a Madman, and Other Russian Sketches

Nikolai Gogol is the author of The Diary of a Madman, and Other Russian Sketches

The Diary of a Madman, and Other Russian Sketches Full Details

Narrator Stefan Rudnicki
Length 6 hours 11 minutes
Author Nikolai Gogol
Category
Publisher Blackstone Publishing
Release date March 28, 2024
ISBN 9781094058054

Subjects

The publisher of the The Diary of a Madman, and Other Russian Sketches is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Classics, Fiction

Additional info

The publisher of the The Diary of a Madman, and Other Russian Sketches is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781094058054.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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