The Island Pharisees

6 hrs. 29 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author John Galsworthy

Narrator Olga Andreeva

Description

The “MediaBook” studio presents the audiobook “Pharisees. The Island of the Pharisees” (English: The Island pharisees), including the full reading of the novel by the famous English writer John Galsworthy, the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate—“For the High Art of Storytelling.”

Shelton stops at a bookstall at Dover station, waiting for the train’s departure. He plans to go to London and has already taken his seat in a corner of a third-class compartment, putting his travel bag there. After a long journey he has already made, he now enjoys listening to the sly voice of the shop clerk, offering him the chance to buy the latest book… Standing by the stall, he hesitates whether to buy a novel he has already read, but will probably read again with pleasure, or “The French Revolution” by Carlyle, which he hasn’t read yet… Finally he decides: buying both books, he hurries to take his place. “Nowhere are people known so well as on a journey,” he mused, pushing his bag into the net above the heads. The compartment was almost full when, at the very last minute, a new passenger arrived—a young girl with a very pale face. “Stupid of me to travel in third class,” Shelton thought as he looked at his neighbors through the sheet of newspaper he held in front of his eyes.

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