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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

Year of Publication: 1922Genres: Published 1900 onward

Running Time: 06 hours 50 minutes 40 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	Preface Margaret Espaillat	5:06
2	Part 1, Chapters 1-5 Margaret Espaillat	44:35
3	Part 1, Chapters 6-8 Margaret Espaillat	30:36
4	Part 1, Chapters 9-11 Margaret Espaillat	40:31
5	Part 2 Margaret Espaillat	40:01
6	Part 3, Chapters 1-2 Margaret Espaillat	39:53
7	Part 3, Chapters 3-4 Margaret Espaillat	48:47
8	Part 3, Chapters 5-7 Margaret Espaillat	34:59
9	Part 3, Chapters 8-10 Margaret Espaillat	47:19
10	Part 3, Chapters 11-12 Margaret Espaillat	26:00
11	Part 4, Chapters 1-3 Margaret Espaillat	28:35
12	Part 4, Chapters 4-6 Margaret Espaillat	24:18