Track | Section | Length |
01 | 01 The House With The Mezzanine (A Painter's Story) | 47:35 |
02 | 02 Typhus | 17:09 |
03 | 03 Gooseberries | 26:16 |
04 | 04 In Exile | 24:19 |
05 | 05 The Lady With The Toy Dog | 43:44 |
06 | 06 Goussiev | 32:44 |
07 | 07 My Life: The Story Of A Provincial Part 1 | 18:59 |
08 | 08 My Life: The Story Of A Provincial Part 2 | 15:43 |
09 | 09 My Life: The Story Of A Provincial Part 3 | 14:46 |
10 | 10 My Life: The Story Of A Provincial Part 4 | 7:52 |
11 | 11 My Life: The Story Of A Provincial Parts 5 and 6 | 23:16 |
12 | 12 My Life: The Story Of A Provincial Part 7 | 20:49 |
13 | 13 My Life: The Story Of A Provincial Parts 8 and 9 | 23:11 |
14 | 14 My Life: The Story Of A Provincial Parts 10 and 11 | 14:47 |
15 | 15 My Life: The Story Of A Provincial Parts 12 and 13 | 25:22 |
16 | 16 My Life: The Story Of A Provincial Parts 14, 15, and 16 | 22:23 |
17 | 17 My Life: The Story Of A Provincial Parts 17 and 18 | 15:29 |
18 | 18 My Life: The Story Of A Provincial Parts 19 and 20 | 26:09 |
Production
Book Coordinator: David Wales
Meta Coordinator: Bart de Leeuw
Proof Listener: DaveC
Artwork
Cover: Portrait of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, 1898, by Osip Braz (1873-1936)
Inset: Painting of Isaak Levitan, the possible prototype for the Artist in the title story
Inset: Anton Chekhov with a bow tie. Author unknown.
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The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories is a collection of six short stories and a novella, most written between 1890 and 1898. The title story is also known as “An Artist’s Story”, in which a landscape painter clashes with a strong-willed young teacher dedicated to improving the lives of the locals. The painter falls in love with the teacher’s younger sister, who is immediately spirited far away when she discloses the happy news to her sister. “The Lady with the Toy Dog”, describes an affair between an unhappily married Moscow banker and a young married woman that begins while each is vacationing alone at the resort of Yalta on the Black Sea and grows into a deep and surprisingly enduring love. In “Gooseberries” a veterinary surgeon narrates his puzzlement at the choice made by his brother to abandon a career as an official at the Exchequer Court and buy a farm to re-live the happiness they had experienced as children, symbolized by gooseberries, which he plants and partakes of at every chance. “My Life: The Story of a Provincial” is the story of a young nobleman who declines to pursue the occupations expected of one of his class and instead makes his living doing manual labor. His father, an architect not averse to taking bribes, is ashamed of him and berates him. Chekhov is in peak form throughout, showing his sly humor and his understanding of human character with the clear, precise prose of a realist who prefers to show things as they are and leave it at that.
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Item Info | |
EAN - DVD case | 0701236970067 |
EAN - CD jacket | 0682550991696 |
Media | MP3 CD |
Package | DVD Case |
Author | Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904) |
Translator | S. S. Koteliansky and Gilbert Cannan |
Year | 1917 |
Recording | |
Read by | David Wales |
Length | 7 hours |
Type of Reading | Solo |
The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Product Code: DB-1284
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