IN THE WORLD

Golden Voice Nicholas Boulton gives yet another excellent performance in this second part of Gorky's three-part autobiography. Sometimes titled in English "My Apprenticeship," this work, published in 1916, covers his youth and is as unsentimental as the first part, MY CHILDHOOD. Boulton is superb--as he is in all the many other Naxos classics of Russian literature that he's narrated. His English-accented voice is clear in delivering narrative, and his exquisite expressiveness captures the dialogue of the varied characters. Boulton seems to be the voice for Naxos's Russian literature productions, and I hope that he continues to be so. M.T.F. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine [Published: APRIL 2025]