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1846., Alma Books Call No: NEW Fic Dos Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Golyadkin, a man who one day meets his exact double, whom is not only physically identical but has the same name and background. Golyadkin's happy life spirals downward into paranoia and neurosis as his friends begin to abandon him for the doppelganger.
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c1969., New American Library Call No: Fic Dos Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Signet books, CQ442
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2009., General, Dover Publications Call No: Fic Tol Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The Kreutzer Sonata" portrays an intense conflict between sexual desire and moral constraint. "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" is a simple, moving tale of peasant life with a moral lesson; the hero of "The Death of Ivan Ilych," after a lifetime of struggle, finds faith and love only as he faces death.
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2016., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: 891.733 P987n Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Universally acknowledged as Russia's greatest poet, Pushkin wrote with the rich, prolific creative powers of a Mozart or a Shakespeare. His prose spans a remarkable range, from satires to epistolary tales, from light comedies to romantic adventures in the manner of Sir Walter Scott, from travel narratives to historical fiction. The haunting dream world of "The Queen of Spades" draws on his own experiences with high-stakes society gambling. The five short stories of The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin are deceptively light as they reveal astonishing human depths, and his short novel, The Captain's Daughter, a love story set during the Cossack rebellion against Catherine the Great, has been called the most perfect book in Russian literature. By turns daringly dramatic and sparklingly comic, written in the exquisite cadences of a master, Novels, Tales, Journeys captures the essence of nineteenth-century Russia--and gives us, in one comprehensive volume, the work with which Pushkin laid the foundations of his country's great prose tradition.
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2007., Adult, Vintage Classics Call No: Fic Tol Edition: First Vintage Classics edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Historical novel that chronicles the tumultuous events in Russia during the Napoleonic war in the early nineteenth century. Focusing on an aristocratic way of life that had already started to fade at the time that Leo Tolstoy wrote the book in the 1860s, it covers a comparatively short span of time (fifteen years) but it renders the lives of disparate characters from all segments of society with vivid, well-realized details. The story captures a generation on the brink of change, with some defending the existing class structure with their lives while others realize that the old way of life is disappearing. Part history lesson, part grand romance, part battlefield revisionism, and part philosophy lecture, War and Peace has captivated generations of readers with its gripping narrative and its clear, intelligible understanding of the human soul.
