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A gentleman in Moscow : a novel

Towles, Amor (author.). Smith, Nicholas Guy, (narrator.).

Summary: "A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery..."--

Record details

  • ISBN: 0735288526
  • ISBN: 9780735288522
  • ISBN: 0735288542
  • ISBN: 9780735288546
  • Physical Description: 14 audio discs (17 hr., 53 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
    sound disc
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: [Westminster, Maryland] : Books on Tape ; New York : Random House Audio, [2016]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Title from container.
Compact disc.
Participant or Performer Note: Read by Nicholas Guy Smith.
Subject: Russia (Federation) Moscow
Moscow (Russia) History Fiction
Detention of persons
Hotels Russia Fiction
Detention of persons Fiction
Interpersonal relations Fiction
Home detention Fiction
Aristocracy (Social class) Fiction
Genre: History.
Historical fiction.
Fiction.
Audiobooks.
Historical fiction.
Audiobooks.

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A Gentleman in Moscow
A Gentleman in Moscow
by Towles, Amor
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Author Notes

A Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale College and received an M.A. in English from Stanford University where he was a Scowcroft Fellow. His novel, "Rules of Civility" reached the bestseller lists of The New York Times, the Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times. The book was rated by The Wall Street Journal as one of the ten best works of fiction in 2011. The book has been published in 15 languages. In the fall of 2012, the novel was optioned to be made into a feature film. Viking/Penguin published Towles's next novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, on September 6, 2016. (Bowker Author Biography)


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