Futility: A Novel on Russian Themes
From the preface written by Edith Wharton:
Then I fell upon Futility. Some one said: “It's another new novel about Russia” –and every one of my eager feelers curled up in a tight knot of refusal. But . . . I read on, amused, moved, absorbed, till the tale and the journey ended together.
This, it seems to me, is the most striking quality of Mr. Gerhardi's book: that he has (even in this, his first venture) enough of the true novelist's “objectivity” to focus the two so utterly alien races to whom he belongs almost equally, by birth and bringing-up – the English and the Russian – to sympathize with both, and to depict them for us as they see each other, with the play of their mutual reactions illuminating and animating them all. - Summary from the preface by Edith Wharton
Genre(s): Published 1900 onward
Language: English
| Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
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| Play 00 | Preface | Margaret Espaillat |
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| Play 01 | Part 1, Chapters 1-5 | Margaret Espaillat |
00:44:35 |
| Play 02 | Part 1, Chapters 6-8 | Margaret Espaillat |
00:30:36 |
| Play 03 | Part 1, Chapters 9-11 | Margaret Espaillat |
00:40:31 |
| Play 04 | Part 2 | Margaret Espaillat |
00:40:01 |
| Play 05 | Part 3, Chapters 1-2 | Margaret Espaillat |
00:39:53 |
| Play 06 | Part 3, Chapters 3-4 | Margaret Espaillat |
00:48:47 |
| Play 07 | Part 3, Chapters 5-7 | Margaret Espaillat |
00:34:59 |
| Play 08 | Part 3, Chapters 8-10 | Margaret Espaillat |
00:47:19 |
| Play 09 | Part 3, Chapters 11-12 | Margaret Espaillat |
00:26:00 |
| Play 10 | Part 4, Chapters 1-3 | Margaret Espaillat |
00:28:35 |
| Play 11 | Part 4, Chapters 4-6 | Margaret Espaillat |
00:24:18 |