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Genre: Russia (16 books)

The best classic books from the Russia genre.

Dead Souls

Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol

3.67 (3)

A small, rather smart, well-sprung four-wheeled carriage with a folding top drove through the gates of an inn of the provincial town of N.; it was the sort of carriage bachelors usually drive in: retired lieutenant-colonels, majors, and landowners with about a hundred serfs - in short, all those who are described as gentlemen of the 'middling' station of life.

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Fathers and Sons

Fathers and Sons

Ivan Turgenev

3.67 (3)

"Well, Piotr, not in sight yet?" was the question asked on May the 20th, 1859, by a gentleman of a little over forty, in a dusty coat and checked trousers, who came out without his hat on to the low steps of the posting station at S-.

#337
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Darkness at Noon

Darkness at Noon

Arthur Koestler

4.33 (3)

The cell door slammed behind Rubashov.

#371
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Eugene Onegin

Eugene Onegin

Alexander Pushkin

4.0 (2)

'My uncle, man of firm convictions... By falling gravely ill, he's won A due respect for his afflictions-- The only clever thing he's done. (James E. Falen translation)

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Oblomov

Oblomov

Ivan Goncharov

4.33 (3)

Ilya Ilyitch Oblomov was lying in bed one morning in his flat in Gorohovy Street, in one of the big houses that had almost as many inhabitants as a whole country town.

#502
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Petersburg

Petersburg

Andrei Bely

3.0 (2)

Your Excellencies, Your Lordships, Your Honors, Citizens!

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