Two Ends

5 hrs. 16 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Vikenty Veresaev

Narrator Marina Yuryevna

Description

“It was Saturday evening. The apprentice bookbinder Andrey Ivanovich Kolosov, in shoes and without a frock coat, sat at the table and quickly scraped pieces of red saffron cloth. His wife, Alexandra Mikhailovna, was gluing bookbinding liners to the sideboard. Andrey Ivanovich hadn’t been to the workshop for five days: his legs were swollen, he had shortness of breath, and the ordinary cough had become worse. All these days he lay gloomily in bed, drank digitalis, and picked on Alexandra Mikhailovna. Today the swelling had completely gone down, and Andrey Ivanovich felt so much better that he got to work—on something he’d taken home from the workshop…”