Ward No. 6
Ward No. 6

Ward No. 6

Anton Chekhov


Perhaps one of Chekov's most famous and profound descriptions of human misery," Ward Six" describes the deplorable conditions of a rundown hospital in the hinterlands of Russia, where the head doctor, Adrey Ragin, while an educated good man, is passive and cynical about the human condition and unable to bring reforms to the hospital. While on his rounds he encounters a young man, Ivan Gromov, committed to the mental ward who suffers from paranoia and obsessive thoughts. This young man is also educated and articulates his own feelings of futility in terms that Dr. Ragin agrees with. He continues to visit Gromov because he is fascinated by his philosophical rants. The story describes the slow and thorough decline of the doctor, who eventually becomes belligerent, socially outcast, and is betrayed by his so-called friends who trick him into becoming the sixth inmate in "Ward Six."

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Product Details

Read by: Expatriate
Length: 2 hours and 58 minutes
Type: Solo reading
Media: MP3 CD
Package: Paper sleeve
Item No.: CD-1293
List Price: $3.99
Artwork: Disc contains 300 dpi image files for printing
CD label art: Includes both square JPG and round PNG formats
CD jewel case art: Includes cover, inner insert, and J-card
DVD case art: Includes wrapper for Amaray box and inner insert

Credits

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Book Coordinator: Expatriate
Meta Coordinator: MaryAnn
Proof Listener: DaveC

Artwork

Cover: Corridor in the Asylum, 1889, by Vincent van Gogh, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Inset: The Scream, by Edvard Munch, 1910, Munch Museum
Inset: Anton Chekhov with a bow tie, author unknown

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Table of Contents

Track Chapter Length
1 01 - Chapters 01-02 13:32
2 02 - Chapters 03-04 12:47
3 03 - Chapter 05 8:54
4 04 - Chapter 06 12:01
5 05 - Chapters 07-08 8:36
6 06 - Chapter 09 10:50
7 07 - Chapter 10 12:41
8 08 - Chapters 11-12 11:35
9 09 - Chapters 13-14 10:44
10 10 - Chapter 15 6:36
11 11 - Chapters 16-17 12:06
12 12 - Chapters 18-19 9:42

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