The Island Pharisees
8 hrs. 12 min.
Language
Russian
Author
John Galsworthy
Author
John Galsworthy
Narrator
Natalya Domeretskaya
Narrator
Natalya Domeretskaya
Description
Every person who is born is born the same as Shelton from this book—so as to set out on a journey, and for the most part he is born on a big road. First he sits in the dust, stretching his chubby hands toward emptiness and fixing his serious eyes on the distance. As soon as he starts to walk, following a strange instinct we call love of life, he moves straight along that road—without looking right or left, because that’s how he likes to go. And he’s charmed by everything: the beautiful even road, wide and white; his own legs; and the view opening on both sides. The sun shines, and the road seems to him a little hot and dusty; rain falls, and he splashes through muddy puddles. None of it matters—everything feels pleasant. His fathers went this way before him; they laid this road for him, and when they raised him, love for doing everything the way they did settled into his blood. And so he goes and goes, calmly resting at night under roofs built for him by those who came before.
One day, without intending to, he notices a path or an opening in the hedge that leads to the right or to the left, and he stops, staring at what is hidden from his eyes. After that, he stops at all the openings in the hedge; one day, with his heart pounding wildly, he tries to walk through one of them.
And that’s where the most interesting part begins.
One day, without intending to, he notices a path or an opening in the hedge that leads to the right or to the left, and he stops, staring at what is hidden from his eyes. After that, he stops at all the openings in the hedge; one day, with his heart pounding wildly, he tries to walk through one of them.
And that’s where the most interesting part begins.
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