Oh! The Public Audiobook by Anton Chekhov

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/47/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Oh! The Public Author: Anton Chekhov Narrator: Kenneth Branagh Format: Unabridged Length: 9 mins Language: English Release date: 11-20-13 Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes Genres: Classics, European Literature Publisher's Summary: This is a story from the In the Ravine and Other Stories collection. Anton Chekhov, one of the finest masters of what is acknowledged as a difficult genre. There is the richly comic "Oh! The Public" about a hassled ticket inspector, a wry look at morals and manners in "The Chorus Girl", and the melancholic tale of a cab driver in "Misery". The other short stories in this collection are: "The Trousseau", "A Story Without a Title", "Children", "Fat and Thin", "The Beggar", "Hush!", "The Orator", and "An Actor's End". Editorial Reviews: Distinguished film and stage actor Kenneth Branagh, renowned for his many adaptions of Shakespeares works, brings a cinematic flair and an unhinged intensity to Anton Chekhovs incisive, caustic takedown of Russian bureaucracy, which pits Podtyagin, an internally conflicted train ticket collector with a propensity for the occasional drink, against a disabled and ticket-less passenger unwilling to comply with Podtyagins fervent demands. Branaghs pitch-perfect, nuanced performance masterfully captures Ptoygins mini existential crisis as well as the lacerating irony of Chekhovs prose in this short but captivating listen. Critic Reviews: "If you want an outstanding reading, in which the narrator's voice brilliantly conveys the speaker's class and the intricate relationships between characters during conversations, you can do no better than to listen to Kenneth Branagh. This great actor mesmerizes as he gasps, chuckles, stutters, and declaims. A must listen." (AudioFile)