Genre :: Russia (16 books)

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  #214

  Darkness at Noon

  by Arthur Koestler

  (3 Reviews)

  93 Points

  "The cell door slammed behind Rubashov."

  

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  #352

  One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

  by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

  (5 Reviews)

  62 Points

  "As usual, at five o'clock that morning reveille was sounded by the blows of a hammer on a length of rail hanging up near the staff quarters."

  

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  #364

  Fathers and Sons

  by Ivan Turgenev

  (3 Reviews)

  58 Points

  "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...

  

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  #416

  Petersburg

  by Andrei Bely

  (2 Reviews)

  46 Points

  "Your Excellencies, Your Lordships, Your Honors, Citizens!"

  

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  #531

  Oblomov

  by Ivan Goncharov

  (3 Reviews)

  19 Points

  "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."

  

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  #560

  Eugene Onegin

  by Alexander Pushkin

  (2 Reviews)

  13 Points

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

  

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