The Dostoyevsky Collection presents the four masterworks for which Russian literary giant Fyodor Dostoyevsky is best known, his two novellas The Gambler and Notes from Underground, and his two lengthier masterpieces Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.
The Dostoyevsky Collection – Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Gambler and The Brothers Karamazov includes an image gallery and a link to a free audio recording of The Brothers Karamazov.
Ninety-six hours of classic fiction. From sheer volume alone this is probably worth it. The performance was decent: character voices were great but the narrative voice was a little off for me (call it a push). The stories are of course classics … one of which (Crime and Punishment) I had already read in High School many eons ago and didn’t particularly care for it (I have issues with the protagonist); however, I recently had the Brothers Karamazov recommended to me and rather than reading through the another huge story by a famous author for whom I should appreciate his works more than I do, I figured an audiobook would be a good way to do this …
And I was absolutely spot on here. In my mind, it is the only way to “casually” read Dostoyevsky (Yes, I know that is heresy) … save the reading for your lit class when you have to dig into weird philosophical concepts that you have small interest in. As an audiobook, it was really wasn’t so bad.
I was given this free advance listener copy (ALC) audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
Salvo algunos "errores de dedo", vale la pena, leer una de las obras cumbres de la literatura universal, y después, una novela corta muy del estilo del maestro Dostoyevski. Si no lo han leído, valga como presentación. Si ya lo han hecho, como yo, el placer de leerlo de nuevo es inmenso.
It's one thing to study existentialism and nihilism and the results of secularism from a purely arm's length philosophy department, but when you take the plunge into the mind, heart, shoes, and soiled clothes of the man in the cellar, this mouse, as he calls himself, you begin to glimpse why Dostoyevsky is now recognized to have been a genius. He saw where we were headed and tried to warn us.