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Perhaps one of the most revered works in all of literature, Tolstoy's War and Peace is an epic story of Russian life in the days of Napoleon. Here are the sagas of five families who must face the ups ...
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In Anna Karenina, faith is challenged, bonds are broken, love dies and is reborn. Originally published in serial form between 1873 and 1877, the novel is set in the glamorous world of the aristocracy ...
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Fear. Desperation. Anguish. Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is a shockingly intimate tale of a murder and a murderer. Raskolnikov is a man on the brink of madness as he plots and carries out a grisl ...
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In Dostoevsky's The Idiot, Prince Myshkin is a mentally unstable young man, and one of the last of his royal bloodline. Suffering from epilepsy and unexplained spells of insanity, he is an outsider, l ...
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In provincial nineteenth century Russia, poor working people are considered the property of the landowners on whose farms they work. This human property—the serfs—are known as "souls& ...
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The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories
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Here is a collection of stories from one of the most famous Russian authors of all time, Anton Chekhov. "The Black Monk," "Volodya", and "An Anonymous Story" all display Chekhov’s brilliance, but it ...
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In Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1864 novel Notes From the Underground, a hermitic man puts forth his personal recollections, thoughts, and ideas. In the first part of this astonishing work, the unnamed narra ...
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Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
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“The Kreutzer Sonata,” Leo Tolstoy’s 1889 novella, is at the heart of this collection of work from one of Russia’s literary masters. As the novella opens, love, sexuality, and relationships be ...
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Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories
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This collection of Ivan Turgenev’s work opens with a character in a bleak situation. Tchulkaturin, the unlikely hero of “The Diary of a Superfluous Man,” has just two weeks to live. Facing the p ...
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_The scene is laid on SORIN'S estate. Two years elapse between the third and fourth acts_. _The scene is laid in the park on SORIN'S estate. A broad avenue of trees leads away from the audience toward ...
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Banker and bourgeois family man Dmitriy Gurov has a roving eye and is always on the lookout for his next conquest in Anton Chekhov’s 1899 story The Lady with the Dog. On holiday one year, he meets a ...
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A country house on a terrace. In front of it a garden. In an avenue of trees, under an old poplar, stands a table set for tea, with a samovar, etc. Some benches and chairs stand near the table. On one ...
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"To turn over virgin soil it is necessary to use a deep plough going well into the earth, not a surface plough gliding lightly over the top."--From a Farmer's Notebook. AT one o'clock in the afternoon ...
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THE Professor received a telegram from the Lyalikovs' factory; he was asked to come as quickly as possible. The daughter of some Madame Lyalikov, apparently the owner of the factory, was ill, and that ...
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