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Complete Prose Fiction – Alexandr Pushkin
Complete Prose Fiction (trans. by Paul Debreczeny) – Alexandr Pushkin – 1821-1841 Reviewed by: Eric Henderson Date: 15 March 2002 I offer here more of a commentary on this work as a translation than the a...
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Eugene Onegin – Alexandr Pushkin
Eugene Onegin – Alexandr Pushkin – 1825 Reviewed by: Ekaterina Mamyshev Date: 22 July 2003 I will say from the very beginning that I read this work in Russian, and can speak for the Russian version only ̵...
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Laughter in the Dark – Vladimir Nabokov
Laughter in the Dark – Vladimir Nabokov – 1932 Reviewed by: Julia Karlysheva Date: 10 June 2002 A evocative and playful novel, ‘Laughter in the Dark’ is a tragic account of love, obsession, trickery,...
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Invitation to a Beheading – Vladimir Nabokov
Invitation to a Beheading – Vladimir Nabokov – 1935 Posted by Chris on 3/2/2003, 21:05:13 I read Invitation with the kind of relish which I typically am able to employ with Nabokov. All the usual hallmarks were pre...
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A Hero of Our Time – Mikhail Lermontov
A Hero of Our Time – Mikhail Lermontov – 1840 Reviewed by: Ekaterina Mamyshev Date: 23 July 2003 This is a characteristic work of Lermontov, having as its background theme freedom. However, it is more th...
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Diary of a Madman and Other Stories – Nikolay Gogol
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories – Nikolay Gogol – 1842 Reviewed by: Liliana Rodriguez Maynez Date: 15 April 2003 In my opinion, Gogol is a master of the short stories. They are very well written (o...
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Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol – 1842 Reviewed by: Lale Date: 10 November 2002 Dead Souls: What an incredible satire on Russian character and tradition! When I had read Gogol’s stories, The Madman’s Diary,...
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Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Reviewed by: Pete C. Date: 1 July 2003 What a strange book! Strange in a good way, though. Dostoyevsky extensively describes the thoughts of a tormented young man, Raskolnikov, who decides to commit a murder. Why? He ...
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The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky – 1880 Reviewed by: Pete C. Date: 26 September 2004 A powerful book; A year or so ago I read Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment and was really impr...
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Letters – Symmachus
Letters – Symmachus – 360 A.D~ Reviewed by: Michael Sympson Date: 1 September 2002 Symmachus (c. 340-c. 405) When faced with indictments against Christians in his province, Pliny the Younger (61-113), durin...
