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The Compromise by Sergei Dovlatov
Page Count: 224Year: 1981The book is structured as 11 compromise stories, each featuring an official newspaper article from Soviet Estonia followed by the true account of the absurd events that led to its writing. The author, a journalist, describes falsifications and absurdities in the newspaper office. One story details a frantic hunt for a suitable infant for an […]
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The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 270Year: 1863The 24-year-old Moscow aristocrat Dmitry Olenin is disillusioned with society, having squandered much of his inheritance. In a desperate attempt to start anew and find true meaning, he leaves the capital and joins the army as a cadet, stationed in a remote Cossack village in the Caucasus. Olenin is instantly captivated by the primal simplicity […]
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The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 88Year: 1886The story begins with the death of Ivan Ilyich Golovin, a high-ranking magistrate, and his self-absorbed colleagues and family calculating how his demise will benefit their careers and finances. The narrative then immediately flashes back, tracing Ivan Ilyich’s “most simple and ordinary” life, which, in the words of the narrator, was “most terrible.” Ivan Ilyich […]
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The Devil by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 110Year: 1911The Devil is a savage and deeply revealing novella by Leo Tolstoy, focusing on the swift moral collapse of a man consumed by forbidden sexual desire. This is a story of a nobleman’s struggle with the animalistic forces he cannot control. Evgeny Irtenev, an aristocratic young landowner, successfully restores his family’s debt-ridden estate and seems […]
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The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 203Year: 1846Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin is a shy, paranoid, and insignificant titular councilor in the dreary bureaucracy of St. Petersburg. Consumed by social anxiety and a desperate need for recognition, he attempts to break out of his lonely routine by attending a dinner party hosted by his superior. Humiliated and ejected from the event, Golyadkin flees into […]
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The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 62Year: 1877The story centers on an unnamed narrator, the self-proclaimed “ridiculous man,” who has fallen into a state of total nihilism and indifference. Convinced that nothing in the world matters, he decides to commit suicide. However, a chance encounter with a distraught young girl who begs him for help for her dying mother stirs a confusing […]
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The Duel by Alexander Kuprin
Page Count: 240Year: 1905Second Lieutenant Romashov is stationed at a miserable military garrison where every day is a cycle of monotony, sadism, and moral decay. A sensitive and idealistic young officer, he cannot reconcile his dreams with the vicious reality of his colleagues and the senseless brutality of army life. His isolation deepens when he falls for Shurochka, […]
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The Eternal Husband by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 220Year: 1870The dissolute nobleman and aging bachelor Aleksey Velchaninov is staying in St. Petersburg when he is suddenly confronted by Pavel Trusotsky, a man he vaguely recognizes. Trusotsky is the newly widowed husband of Natalya, with whom Velchaninov had an intense affair nine years prior. The encounter plunges Velchaninov into a chilling psychological duel. Trusotsky, seemingly […]
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The Exchange by Yury Trifonov
Page Count: 192Year: 1969The young Moscow intellectual Viktor Dmitriev and his wife Lena initiate a housing exchange operation with the goal of moving Viktor’s terminally ill mother into their own, larger apartment so she can “see out her days” there. This seemingly mundane step instantly turns the entire family into predators willing to commit any moral degradation for […]
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The Fatal Eggs by Mikhail Bulgakov
Page Count: 160Year: 1923It is Moscow in the near-future year of 1928. Professor Vladimir Persikov, a brilliant and misanthropic zoologist, accidentally discovers a “Red Ray” that dramatically accelerates the growth and reproductive rate of living organisms. At the same time, a mysterious chicken plague (the “rooster disease”) wipes out virtually all poultry in the Soviet republics. Driven by […]
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The Forest by Alexander Ostrovsky
Page Count: 140Year: 1871The wealthy, aging landowner Raisa Gurmyzhskaya rules her isolated estate, ruthlessly selling off portions of her titular forest for profit while shamelessly pursuing a romantic connection with a young opportunist. Her penniless niece and ward, Aksyusha, is desperately in love with a local man but is trapped by her aunt’s avarice, facing the prospect of […]
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The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 100Year: 1911READ FREE“The Forged Coupon” is a story about how a small act can lead to serious consequences. The protagonist, deciding to use a forged coupon, hoped to deceive the store and gain an advantage, but this act led to a chain of fatal events. The novella’s plot portrays a chain of dishonest and cruel acts committed […]
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