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Rudin by Ivan Turgenev
Page Count: 177Year: 1856Dmitri Rudin bursts onto the scene at the quiet country estate of Darya Lasunskaya, a wealthy, pretentious society hostess. Possessing brilliant eloquence, profound learning, and an electrifying passion for philosophical and social ideals, Rudin immediately captivates everyone, especially the young, sensitive Natalia, who falls deeply in love with his words and his vision for a […]
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Ruslan and Ludmila by Alexander Pushkin
Page Count: 240Year: 1820At the feast celebrating his wedding to the beautiful daughter of Prince Vladimir, the mighty warrior Ruslan is robbed of his bride, Lyudmila, who vanishes without a trace, spirited away by a malevolent, unseen force. Heartbroken, Ruslan and his three envious rivals—the fierce Rogday, the boastful Farlaf, and the passionate Ratmir—set out on separate, perilous […]
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Selected Stories by Anton Chekhov
Page Count: 320Year: 1903Praised by Tolstoy as an “incomparable artist”, Chekhov is considered one of the masters of the short story. This collection features twenty of his most noted stories, including The Confession, Ninotchka, and The Cure for Drinking. Browse the table of contents, check the quotes, read the first chapter, find out which famous book it is similar to, […]
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Sketches from a Hunter’s Album by Ivan Turgenev
Page Count: 416Year: 1862This collection of short stories is narrated by a wealthy, educated nobleman—a Hunter—who travels through rural Russia. The entire work uses the pretext of hunting to provide a vivid, firsthand account of life under serfdom. The main focus of the sketches is the humanity and innate dignity of the Russian peasant. Turgenev highlights that these […]
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Spring Torrents by Ivan Turgenev
Page Count: 176Year: 1872READ FREEThe story is narrated by Dmitry Sanin, a nobleman and landowner, who looks back on events that happened thirty years prior during his travels in Germany. One day, while passing through Frankfurt, the protagonist falls in love with Gemma, the daughter of a confectionery owner. He proposes to her and begins to make plans for […]
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St. John’s Eve by Nikolai Gogol
Page Count: 40Year: 1830The young and poor farmhand Petrus is in love with the beautiful Pidorka, the daughter of the wealthy Cossack Korzh. Korzh is strongly against the marriage due to Petrus’s poverty and intends to marry Pidorka off to someone else. In desperation, Petrus meets the mysterious stranger Basavriuk (whom the villagers believe to be the embodiment […]
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Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol
Page Count: 240Year: 1842The old colonel Taras Bulba, the embodiment of the Cossack spirit, brings his sons, Ostap and Andriy, from the Kyiv Academy to the Zaporozhian Sich—the military stronghold governed by the harsh laws of war and fraternity. He believes that the only worthy education for a Cossack is battle. The sons quickly prove themselves in combat: […]
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The Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 600Year: 1875The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, the ambitious and confused Arkady Dolgoruky, a nineteen-year-old youth, arrives in St. Petersburg to confront the biological father he barely knows, Andrey Versilov. Arkady is torn between a fierce desire to expose his father’s wrongdoings and a desperate need to earn his love and recognition. Arkady carries a […]
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The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 1056Year: 1880There once were three brothers — Alyosha, Dmitri, and Ivan. They would have lived happily and easily, but their father, a greedy landowner and voluptuary, refused to divide the inheritance honestly. He also tried to seduce Mitya’s beloved—Grushenka—with money. Peaceful negotiations led to nothing. After a terrible scandal, each family member began to devise his […]
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The Captain’s Daughter by Alexander Pushkin
Page Count: 304Year: 1836READ FREEThe novella can be viewed from several perspectives: first, it’s a historical novel about Yemelyan Pugachev’s rebellion; second, it’s a psychological drama about coming of age, choice, duty, and mercy; and third, it’s a love story. Pushkin creates a strikingly authentic picture of the era: the distant Orenburg province, the provincial Belogorsk fortress, where the […]
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The Carriage by Nikolai Gogol
Page Count: 60Year: 1836The action unfolds in a boring provincial town that is brought to life by the arrival of a cavalry regiment and a brigadier general. The main character is a local landowner, retired cavalry officer Pifagor Pifagorovich Chertokutsky, who is known for his boasting. At a dinner hosted by the general, after several glasses of punch, […]
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The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
Page Count: 108Year: 1903The debt is due, the auction date is set, and the fate of the Ranevskaya family estate hangs in the balance, symbolised by the vast, beautiful, but utterly useless cherry orchard. Returning from a ruinous life in Paris, the charming, irresponsible aristocrat Lyubov Ranevskaya and her impractical brother Gaev struggle to comprehend their financial doom. […]
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