Russian novels and learn Russian language audiobooks list

Pimsleur Quick and Simple Russian for English Speakers

Summary from the publisher of Pimsleur Quick and Simple Russian for English Speakers ...

Understand and speak Russian starting with these eight quick and simple audio lessons.

You're not just learning "phrases" with the Pimsleur Method, you're acquiring essential, conversational Russian!

You'll be thrilled to discover you can hold a real conversation in Russian when you have finished these eight 30-minute lessons!

Dr. Paul Pimsleur's original and unique method enables you to acquire Russian as effortlessly as children absorb their native language. You will succeed because the Pimsleur program makes sure that you learn vocabulary and grammar correctly and easily in conversational settings, without mindless repetition. Pimsleur is the only language program that includes exclusive, copyrighted memory training that ensures you always will remember what you have learned.

Learn in Your Car: Russian, Level 1

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The Learn in Your Car language series is the first system ever designed to teach a language in your car...or anywhere...without a textbook. Simple and effective, you can learn to converse in another language while driving, walking, or doing tasks around the house. And now with Learn in Your Car from audible.com, you can turn your PC, your Rio, or any mobile device into your own personal language tutor. Each course is organized the way you learn best - by learning words and phrases - and building these into sentences and clear conversations. Arrange hotel accommodations, order in restaurants, change money, and feel more at home next time you travel!

Level 1 offers an introduction to key words, numbers, phrases, sentence structure, and basic grammar.

Learn in Your Car: Russian, Level 2

Level 2 teaches more challenging vocabulary, additional grammar, and targeted sentences designed to generate confidence in your ability to comprehend and converse.

Learn in Your Car : Russian, Level 3

Level 3 presents expanded vocabulary, advanced grammar, and more detailed sentences to extend your conversational skills.

In-Flight Russian : Learn Before You Land

Summary from the publisher of In-Flight Russian: Learn Before You Land...

Wondering how to make use of all that spare time on the plane while you're flying to Moscow or St. Petersburg? Between your in-flight meal and your in-flight movie, try some In-Flight Russian! This 60-minute program is the simplest way to learn just enough Russian to get through anything you'll run into, whether you're traveling for business or for pleasure. Short lessons make In-Flight Russian easy to use:

• Covers everything from greetings and polite expressions to asking directions, getting around, checking into a hotel, and going to a restaurant.
  
• Includes sections for meeting people and spending a night on the town.
  
• Over 400 essential words, phrases, and expressions.
  
• Simple and effective format - just listen and repeat.

Anna Karenina (Unabridged audiobooks)

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Summary from the publisher of Anna Karenina (Unabridged)

Considered by some to be the world's greatest novel, Anna Karenina contains two plots: the tragedy of Madame Karenina, in love with a man who is not her husband; and the story of Konstantine Levin, a sensitive man whose personal philosophy is Tolstoy's reason for writing about him. Anna Karenina, the sister of Stepan Oblonsky, comes to Moscow in an attempt to patch up a dispute between her brother and his wife, Dolly. While there, she meets a handsome young officer named Aleksei Vronski, who is rumored to be in love with Dolly's younger sister, Kitty. However, Konstantine Levin is also in love with Kitty, and he succeeds in marrying her. The forbidden romance between Anna and Vronsky has tragic consequences, and is masterfully set in counterpoint to Kitty's more enduring marriage with Levin, who is a reflection of Tolstoy himself, often illuminating the author's search for meaning in life, his love of a natural, simple existence, and various other views and convictions.

War and Peace (Unabridged audiobooks)

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Summary from the publisher of War and Peace (Unabridged)

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. Tolstoy's genius is clearly seen in the multitude of characters in this massive chronicle, all of them fully realized and equally memorable. Out of this complex narrative emerges a profound examination of the individual's place in the historical process, one that makes it clear why Thomas Mann praised Tolstoy for his Homeric powers and placed War and Peace in the same category as The Iliad.

The Cossacks (Unabridged audiobooks)

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Summary from the publisher of The Cossacks (Unabridged)

The Cossacks is one of the finest depictions of Cossack society in Russian literature. Against that primitive background, Tolstoy examines two psychological problems. The first is that of a young man who wants to love and wants to fit into society. The other is that of the difficulty of a primitive society in accepting the domination of a higher culture. This is a brilliant exploration of the themes of individuality and social identity.

The Brothers Karamazov (Unabridged audiobooks)

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Having spent four years in a Siberian penal settlement during which time he underwent a religious conversion, Dostoevsky developed a keen ability for deep character analysis. In The Brothers Karamazov, he explores human nature at its most loathsome and cruel but never flinches at what he finds. The Brothers Karamazov, tells the stirring tale of four brothers: the pleasure-seeking, impatient Dmitri; the brilliant and morose Ivan; the gentle, loving, and honest Alyosha; and the illegitimate Smerdyakov, shy, silent, and cruel. They are behind the murder of one of literature's most despicable characters: their father. This was Dostoyevsky's final and perhaps his finest work.

Crime and Punishment (Unabridged audiobooks)

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Summary from the publisher of Crime and Punishment (Unabridged)

Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is universally regarded as one of literature's finest achievements, as the great Russian novelist explores the inner workings of a troubled intellectual. Raskolnikov, a nihilistic young man in the midst of a spiritual crisis, makes the fateful decision to murder a cruel pawnbroker, justifying his actions by relying on science and reason, and creating his own morality system. Dehumanized yet sympathetic, exhausted yet hopeful, Raskolnikov represents the best and worst elements of modern intellectualism. The aftermath of his crime and Petrovich's murder investigation result in an utterly compelling, truly unforgettable cat-and-mouse game. This stunning dramatization of Dostoevsky's magnum opus brings the slums of St. Petersburg and the demons of Raskolnikov's tortured mind vividly to life.

The Idiot (Unabridged audiobooks) Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Despite the harsh circumstances besetting his own life - abject poverty, incessant gambling, and the death of his firstborn child - Dostoevsky produced a second masterpiece, The Idiot, just two years after completing Crime and Punishment. In it, a saintly man, Prince Myshkin, is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power, and sexual conquest than the ideals of Christianity. Myshkin soon finds himself at the center of a violent love triangle in which a notorious woman and a beautiful young girl become rivals for his affections. Extortion, scandal, and murder follow, testing the wreckage left by human misery to find "man in man."

Poor People (Unabridged audiobooks)

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Summary from the publisher of Poor People (Unabridged)

As both a masterpiece of Russian populist writing and a parody of the entire genre, Poor People is an early example of Dostoevsky's genius. Written as a series of letters, Poor People tells the tragic tale of a petty clerk and his impossible love for a young girl. Longing to help her and her family, he sells everything he can, but his kindness leads him only into more desperate poverty, and ultimately into debauchery. As a typical "man of the underground", he serves as the embodiment of the belief that happiness can only be achieved with riches. This work is remarkable for its vivid characterizations, especially of Dievushkin, the clerk, solely by means of his letters to the young girl and her answers to him.

American RadioWorks presents A Russian Journey

Follow Russian writer Aleksandr Radishchev's 200-year-old footsteps from St. Petersburg to Moscow, and discover the soul of a people and the character of a nation....(50 mins)