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Books narrated by David Sillars

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    Blue Cities

    Narrated by David Sillars ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 44 min

    A romantic and a dreamer, Alexei Tolstoy never quite came to terms with the conflict between the glorious notion of a revolution to bring equality and justice to the world and its real-life execution, which took place in Russia in 1917. While he realized struggle was inevitable, the full horror of hunger, epidemics, and civil wars never truly sunk in until he found himself in the midst of them. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Faces of Hardship

    by Ivan Franko ...
    Narrated by David Sillars ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 46 min

    Faces of Hardship is an anthology of short stories and novellas by Ukrainian writer, translator, and political activist Ivan Franko, showing the unpopular, uncomfortable, and unattractive sides of life in late 19th - early 20th century Ukraine and Russia in vivid color.This collection includes the following works:Your Own FaultAt the BottomThe Story of a CoatTwo BuddiesTo the Ligh... ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Down and Out in Drohobych

    by Ivan Franko ...
    Translated by Yuri Tkacz ...
    Many of the stories in this volume deal with the life of a young boy growing up in Galicia, in the far east of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the mid-1800s. They depict the poverty and difficult conditions in the region at that time. Although autobiographical in nature, Ivan Franko wrote that the stories could not unreservedly be considered a part of his autobiography, because in all of them he ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Zakhar Berkut

    by Ivan Franko ...
    Series series Voices of Ukraine
    A historical romance depicting the life and system of government of the people in the Carpathian region of Ukraine during the 13th century, at the time of the Mongol invasion. Includes a brief outline of Ukrainian history. ... Read more

    $7.04 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ordeal, Book Three: Bleak Morning

    With a New Critical Introduction

    Three books written across twenty years, and a tally that can be checked.In The Sisters, finished in Paris in 1921, Trotsky is named nought times and Stalin nought. In Nineteen Eighteen, written in the year of Trotsky's expulsion, Trotsky nought and Stalin once. In Bleak Morning, dated 22 June 1941 - the morning the German army crossed the frontier - Trotsky nought and Stalin six.And this is what ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • For the Hearth

    A Ukrainian Novel of Honour and Silence, 1897

    by Ivan Franko ...
    Translated by Serhii Sakal ...
    A captain of the Austrian army comes home to Lviv after five years in Bosnia. His wife has waited for him, his children are at school, and his home is better furnished than the one he left.Before he walks through the door, the reader has already heard his wife and her old school friend, Yulia, talking in the drawing room - about a business they have nearly wound up, papers lodged in an archive, a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Painted Fox

    Illustrated Edition

    The Painted Fox is a timeless fable by celebrated Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko, first published in 1899 as part of the collection When the Animals Could Talk. Since then, the mischievous adventures of the cunning, quick-witted Fox named Mykyta have been entertaining readers both young and old alike. The story is inspired by the ancient Indian tale of the Blue Jackal from the Panchatantra.Mykyta ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Boryslav in Flames

    by Ivan Franko ...
    Translated by Yuri Tkacz ...
    Boryslav in Flames by Ivan Franko is a pioneering novel that depicts the rise of the labour movement in Western Ukraine. The story unfolds against the backdrop of the industrial revolution in the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the 1860s. As industry burgeons in Boryslav, a nascent working class emerges, inspired by socialist ideals – a unique phenomenon in mostly agrarian Galicia.Central to the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Down and Out in Drohobych

    by Ivan Franko ...
    Translated by Yuri Tkacz ...
    Many of the stories in this volume deal with the life of a young boy growing up in Galicia, in the far east of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the mid-1800s. They depict the poverty and difficult conditions in the region at that time. Although autobiographical in nature, Ivan Franko wrote that the stories could not unreservedly be considered a part of his autobiography, because in all of them he ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Aelita

    Alexei Tolstoy's Aelita was written in the 1920s and imagines the first breakneck human flight to Mars. The action starts in the Soviet Union after the Russian Civil War. The old engineer Los and his companion Gusev, a Red Army soldier and true Bolshevik firebrand, fly to Mars in a rickety, egg-shaped craft. There they encounter an ancient civilisation, which actually originated on the long-lost ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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    Vampire's Family, A

    Narrated by Fred Wolinsky ...
    Series Audiobook 30 - Moonlit Tales of the Macabre - Small Bites

    Unabridged

    1 hour 9 min

    Not all vampires walk the land alone - sometimes they bring their relatives. So discovers a lonely traveler when he carelessly visits a haunted village. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Ghoul

    Narrated by Fred Wolinsky ...
    Series Audiobook 28 - Moonlit Tales of the Macabre - Small Bites

    Unabridged

    2 hours 48 min

    A prominent scholar and narrator of Russian history, Count Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy was also heavily influenced by German Romanticism and old Gothic tales. Here is his own foray into the macabre story genre - a novel as complex and tangled as any palace intrigue. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus