9 fascinating audiobooks about the lives of famous people
Miscellaneous / / July 27, 2022
1. "UNSUMMED UP", Eldar Ryazanov
- Reader: Alexander Vorobyov.
- Duration: 27 hours 49 minutes.
Eldar Ryazanov - one of the most popular and beloved Soviet directors. In his memoirs, he talks about the films he made, the actors he worked with. The book is created, perhaps, not in the most fascinating language, because the author is not a writer. But from it you can learn something interesting about the master and cinema in general.
2. "The Story of My Life" by Giacomo Casanova
- Reader: Oleg Isaev.
- Duration: 8 hours 42 minutes.
It's funny how people often think that Casanova is a fictional character, and Stirlitz - a real person. Although it's quite the opposite. Giacomo Casanova - Italian traveler, translator, diplomat. And yes, ladies' man. Fortunately, writing was also close to him, so he told about his life in his autobiography.
3. "Confession", Leo Tolstoy
- Reader: Mikhail Vinogradov.
- Duration: 3 hours 45 minutes.
Tolstoy wrote this autobiographical book as a result of an acute spiritual crisis that he experienced in the 1870s. In it, the author outlined his new views.
The church was against the publication of the Confession. So for the first time the work was published in 1884 in Geneva. In Russia, it officially came out only in 1906.
4. "My life in art", Konstantin Stanislavsky
- Reader: Sergei Didok.
- Duration: 21 hours 57 minutes.
The figure of director Stanislavsky is strongly associated with the phrase "I don't believe it!". But he is famous primarily for the creation of a unique acting system, which is popular all over the world. Therefore, it is interesting to read his memoirs about work and about the Moscow Art Theater. The master himself admitted that he could not tell everything in the book. But this will be enough to get to know each other. For those who get carried away, there are many more works by Stanislavsky.
5. The Diaries, George Orwell
- Reader: Alexey Bagdasarov.
- Duration: 25 hours 58 minutes.
Orwell's works in 2022 have found a second wind. It is all the more interesting to listen to his diaries, in which he recorded a variety of information about events, life, impressions, emotions.
6. "About myself. Diary 1901-1921, Korney Chukovsky
- Reader: Yaroslav Lukashev.
- Duration: 17 hours 18 minutes.
Most of us know Chukovsky by Barmaley and Aibolit, poems about the girl Murochka and other children's works. The diary, which covers 20 very difficult years, is an opportunity to look at the author from a different angle.
7. "Far Close", Ilya Repin
- Reader: Igor Yaschenko.
- Duration: 16 hours 22 minutes.
If Repin lived today, his success story would be replicated by the media, because he is a one hundred percent self-made person. And also a legendary artist, of course, recognized at the world level. “Memories of the most interesting minutes of my life” - this is how Repin himself called his memoirs. In them, he writes about childhood, growing up, study, work - and in excellent language.
8. "My life. My Achievements, Henry Ford
- Reader: Gennady Smirnov.
- Duration: 8 ocloc'k.
Memoirs of a businessman and inventor who changed the world. Listening to them is interesting and still useful for those who think about their business. Because Ford's ideas, unlike infogypsy, tested on personal experience.
9. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin
- Reader: Ilya Volkov.
- Duration: 6 hours 21 minutes.
Franklin's portrait is on hundred dollar billalthough he was never President of America. But its importance for this country is difficult to underestimate. Franklin is one of the founding fathers of the United States, and also a scientist, diplomat, and inventor. In particular, he is considered the creator of the lightning rod. And Franklin, the 15th child in the family, began as an assistant seller of tallow candles. Sounds like a story with a lot to learn, right?
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