Duel
By Anton Chekhov · Running time 5:13:07 · General Fiction
Audio streams directly from the Internet Archive. Recording by LibriVox volunteers (public domain). The text is in the public domain in the USA; please check the copyright laws of your country.
About this book
The plot centres around Laevsky, who is living in a small seaside town in the Caucasus after running away with another man's wife, Nadyezhda Fyodorovna, amid dreams of starting a new life. The dreams have come to nothing as Laevsky idles away his life drinking and playing cards, and Nadyezhda begins to have other affairs. Laevsky's scheme to run away again, this time without his mistress, brings him into conflict with the rationalist Von Koren, who believes in Darwinian principles of natural selection and extinction of the weak and useless. Matters come to a head when an outburst from Laevsky
Description from the LibriVox catalogue.
Chapters and downloads on LibriVox →
You might also like
- Schoolmaster and Other StoriesAnton Chekhov · 6:14:48
- SteppeAnton Chekhov · 03:47:40
- My Life: The Story of a ProvincialAnton Chekhov · 03:41:42
- Bet and Other StoriesAnton Chekhov · 06:07:43
- Tales of Chekhov Vol. 01Anton Chekhov · 2:01:50
- ProposalAnton Chekhov · 0:31:47
- SeagullAnton Chekhov · 2:07:37
- Three SistersAnton Chekhov · 2:21:35