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Netochka Nezvanova by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 200Year: 1849The story follows the painful childhood and youth of Netochka Nezvanova, a young girl whose life is defined by three distinct stages of suffering and dependence. The first stage details Netochka’s life with her stepfather, Efimov, a failed violinist. Efimov, a ruin of a man who believes he is an unappreciated musical genius, exploits Netochka’s […]
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Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 160Year: 1864Notes from Underground is a philosophical novella told as the rambling, contradictory confession of an unnamed narrator, a retired civil servant living in voluntary isolation in a miserable room on the outskirts of St. Petersburg. This narrator, often called the “Underground Man,” is a bitter, hyper-conscious, and self-loathing individual. The first part, titled “Underground,” is […]
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Novel with Cocaine by M. Agueev
Page Count: 224Year: 1934The student Vadim Maslennikov begins his confession by describing first love and his acquaintance with women. However, the central event is his discovery of cocaine. Vadim quickly becomes addicted, which completely changes his character, making him cynical and obsessed. He loses the capacity for genuine feeling, replacing it with the painful euphoria of the drug. […]
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Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
Page Count: 540Year: 1859READ FREEGoncharov had the nickname “Prince of Sloth.” Oblomov’s childhood memories are, in fact, Goncharov’s own. This book is about how apathy can ruin your life. It is very useful for those who are in this state. The author both condemns and does not condemn the hero, Oblomov. But still, the main idea of the book […]
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On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev
Page Count: 220Year: 1860Elena is courted by two distinct young men: Pavel Shubin, a spirited but self-indulgent sculptor, and Andrei Bersenyev, a kind, serious-minded student and aspiring philosopher. Both lack the forceful passion and ability to act that Elena secretly seeks. The dynamic is broken by the arrival of Dmitri Insarov, a friend of Bersenyev and a dedicated […]
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Ours by Sergei Dovlatov
Page Count: 135Year: 1983The book contains stories about ten of the author’s relatives. The great-grandfather, a tailor, made a failed attempt to serve Lenin. The maternal grandfather worked as a teacher in the USA and had an affair with a Black woman before returning to the USSR. The book details the father’s theatrical work and his problems with […]
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Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Page Count: 224Year: 1962This is a literary detective story told in the form of a poem and a commentary. The poem is “Pale Fire,” written by the recently murdered poet John Shade. The commentary is written by his delusional neighbor, Charles Kinbote, who claims to be the exiled King Charles II of Zembla, hiding from an assassin. Kinbote […]
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Peter the First by Aleksey Tolstoy
Page Count: 776Year: 1934The story begins in the archaic, stifling world of 17th-century Muscovy, ruled by Tsarevna Sophia, where young Peter is little more than a boisterous boy more interested in soldiers and ships than statecraft. The narrative follows his fiery ascent to power, portraying not just the Tsar’s ruthless reforms—the Great Embassy, the Streltsy Uprisings, the foundations […]
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Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
Page Count: 208Year: 1957Meet Timofey Pavlovich Pnin, a Russian émigré, professor of Russian literature at the quaint American Waindell College, and one of the most endearing and hapless figures in 20th-century fiction. Pnin is a true intellectual of the old school—erudite, meticulous, and agonizingly vulnerable—but hopelessly clumsy when navigating the chaos of American life, from mastering the English […]
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Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 190Year: 1846The story documents the poignant and ultimately tragic relationship between Makar Devushkin, an aging, poor government clerk who earns his living by tedious copying, and Varvara Dobroselova (Varenka), a young, impoverished orphan earning her keep by sewing. Though they are separated only by a courtyard, their correspondence becomes their entire world, a vital means of […]
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Progress, Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom by Andrei Sakharov
Page Count: 160Year: 1968This foundational 1968 manifesto launches a fierce moral and intellectual attack on both Soviet totalitarianism and the Western nuclear threat, arguing that human survival demands the radical convergence of the two global systems. The author, a secret-weapons physicist, risks his entire privileged life to declare that the survival of humanity hinges on universal intellectual freedom […]
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Pushkin Hills by Sergei Dovlatov
Page Count: 128Year: 1985The main character, the writer Boris Alikhanov, takes a job as a guide at the Pushkin Reserve. He leaves Leningrad, fleeing his divorce and the emigration of his wife and daughter. The book describes his service as a guide, his drinking, and conflicts with colleagues. He awaits the final arrival of his wife to finalize […]
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