Author: Nikolai Gogol, Constance Garnett
Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini
Unabridged: 2 hr 41 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Reluctant Poet, Inc.
Published: 01/07/2025
Novelist and playwright Nikolai Gogol is widely considered to be the father of modern Russian literature.
Constance Garnett (1862–1946) translated the works of numerous Russian authors, including Tolstoy, Gogol, Pushkin, and Turgenev.
Called “in a class by himself” by Oprah Daily, and “a master in his field” by The New York Times, Edoardo Ballerini is an award-winning and celebrated narrator of audiobooks.
“Edoardo Ballerini splendidly narrates three of the Russian writer Gogol’s best-known works…Golden Voice Ballerini has a splendidly smooth American-accented baritone. He delivers the narrative portions of these works clearly and with confidence. The dialogue is done capably, with slight variations for each character. He even does well in trilling his ‘Rs.’ For ‘The Nose,’ he gives the character an appropriately nasal-sounding voice. It’s a pleasure to hear all three works given such wonderful narrations.” AudioFile