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The Gulag Archipelago

The Authorized Abridgement

by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ...

The official, one-volume edition, authorized by Solzhenitsyn"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY" —TimeThe Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature and a landmark of Russian history, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum."It is impossible to name a book that ... Read more

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The official, one-volume edition, authorized by Solzhenitsyn"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY" —TimeThe Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature and a landmark of Russian history, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum."It is impossible to name a book that
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Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Digital Fire ...

Crime and Punishment is a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, first published in 1866. It is the second of Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his return from ten years of exile in Siberia. The plot of Crime and Punishment is probably familiar to many. An impoverished former student, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov lives in St. Petersburg. Raskolnikov is a nihilist, driven by a utilitarian ... Read more

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Crime and Punishment is a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, first published in 1866. It is the second of Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his return from ten years of exile in Siberia. The plot of Crime and Punishment is probably familiar to many. An impoverished former student, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov lives in St. Petersburg. Raskolnikov is a nihilist, driven by a utilitarian
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

by George Saunders ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today.**LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today.**LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire,
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The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]

An Experiment in Literary Investigation

by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ...

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —TimeVolume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.“The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.” —George F. Kennan“It is impossible to ... Read more

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“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —TimeVolume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.“The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.” —George F. Kennan“It is impossible to
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Dialogues/Dialogi

Literary and Cultural Exchanges Between (Ex)Soviet and American Women

by Susan Aiken, Adele Marie Barker, Maya Koreneva, Ekaterina Stetsenko ...

Co-authored by Russian, Ukrainian, and American critics, Dialogues/Dialogi is the first fully collaborative and comparative study of American and (ex)Soviet women writers. Truly a dialogue, the book juxtaposes fiction by American and Soviet women from the 1960s to the present to reveal their similarities and differences and to show how questions of gender, race, and ethnicity are enacted in the ... Read more

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Co-authored by Russian, Ukrainian, and American critics, Dialogues/Dialogi is the first fully collaborative and comparative study of American and (ex)Soviet women writers. Truly a dialogue, the book juxtaposes fiction by American and Soviet women from the 1960s to the present to reveal their similarities and differences and to show how questions of gender, race, and ethnicity are enacted in the
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A Karenina Companion

by C.J.G. Turner ...

Although Anna Karenina has been described as “the European novel” by Frank Leavis, the geographical setting of the novel and, increasingly, its temporal and cultural setting, render it a foreign novel to most readers. A Karenina Companion offers a wealth of information, including a great deal that has previously not been available in English, for the scholarly and literary appreciation of this ... Read more

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Although Anna Karenina has been described as “the European novel” by Frank Leavis, the geographical setting of the novel and, increasingly, its temporal and cultural setting, render it a foreign novel to most readers. A Karenina Companion offers a wealth of information, including a great deal that has previously not been available in English, for the scholarly and literary appreciation of this
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Leo Tolstoy - Bethink Yourselves

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

by Leo Tolstoy ...

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born on September 9th 1828 into Russian nobility but abandoned his title and through his interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus became a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His writings on non-violence were to have a profound impact on Gandhi and Martin Luther King. His reputation for many people is based on the epic, in length and scope, of his ... Read more

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Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born on September 9th 1828 into Russian nobility but abandoned his title and through his interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus became a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His writings on non-violence were to have a profound impact on Gandhi and Martin Luther King. His reputation for many people is based on the epic, in length and scope, of his
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Westland

Polen und die Ukraine in der russischen Literatur von Puškin bis Babel’

by Mirja Lecke ...

Series Book 2 - Postcolonial Perspectives on Eastern Europe
Die Autorin nimmt Impulse der Postcolonial Studies auf und bezieht sie auf das Russische Imperium. Sie untersucht, wie sich in russischen literarischen Texten die Herrschaft über das «Westland», also die Gebiete im heutigen Litauen, Polen, Weißrussland und der Ukraine, niederschlägt. Diese multi-ethnische Region wird im 19. Jh. durch unterschiedliche historische Narrative und literarisch ... Read more

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Die Autorin nimmt Impulse der Postcolonial Studies auf und bezieht sie auf das Russische Imperium. Sie untersucht, wie sich in russischen literarischen Texten die Herrschaft über das «Westland», also die Gebiete im heutigen Litauen, Polen, Weißrussland und der Ukraine, niederschlägt. Diese multi-ethnische Region wird im 19. Jh. durch unterschiedliche historische Narrative und literarisch
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Заметки о русской поэзии

by Петр Гапоненко ...

Сборник обзорных очерков о жизни и творчестве выдающихся русских поэтов XIX века: Пушкина, Д. Веневитинова, Я. Полонского, А. Толстого, А. Апухтина. Автор пытался доступно изложить их творческое особенности, не впадая в упрощение и схематизм. Адресована любителям классической русской литературы. ... Read more

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Сборник обзорных очерков о жизни и творчестве выдающихся русских поэтов XIX века: Пушкина, Д. Веневитинова, Я. Полонского, А. Толстого, А. Апухтина. Автор пытался доступно изложить их творческое особенности, не впадая в упрощение и схематизм. Адресована любителям классической русской литературы.
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Oz behind the Iron Curtain

Aleksandr Volkov and His Magic Land Series

by Erika Haber ...

Series series Children's Literature Association Series
Recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Faculty Research Achievement Award in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Syracuse UniversityIn 1939, Aleksandr Volkov (1891-1977) published Wizard of the Emerald City, a revised version of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Only a line on the copyright page explained the book as a "reworking" of the American story. Readers ... Read more

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Recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Faculty Research Achievement Award in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Syracuse UniversityIn 1939, Aleksandr Volkov (1891-1977) published Wizard of the Emerald City, a revised version of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Only a line on the copyright page explained the book as a "reworking" of the American story. Readers
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La Historia De Rusia

by Ruben Ygua ...

Hemos complicado excesivamente el estudio del pasado dando mayor importancia a opiniones e intereses nacionalistas, religiosos y morales, relegando el hecho histórico a un segundo plano, subordinándolo a los intereses del sistema que controla nuestra educación. No podemos aceptar esa manipulación, es nuestro deber librarnos de las cadenas falsamente culturales por respeto hacia nuestros ... Read more

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Hemos complicado excesivamente el estudio del pasado dando mayor importancia a opiniones e intereses nacionalistas, religiosos y morales, relegando el hecho histórico a un segundo plano, subordinándolo a los intereses del sistema que controla nuestra educación. No podemos aceptar esa manipulación, es nuestro deber librarnos de las cadenas falsamente culturales por respeto hacia nuestros
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Biological Discourses

The Language of Science and Literature Around 1900

Edited by Robert Craig, Ina Linge ...

Series Book 27 - Cultural History and Literary Imagination
The relationship between biological thought and literature, and between science and culture, has long been an area of interest by no means confined to literary studies. The Darwin Anniversary celebrations of 2009 added to this tradition, inspiring a variety of new publications on the cultural reception of Darwin and Darwinism. With a fresh scope that includes but also reaches beyond the «Darwinian ... Read more

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The relationship between biological thought and literature, and between science and culture, has long been an area of interest by no means confined to literary studies. The Darwin Anniversary celebrations of 2009 added to this tradition, inspiring a variety of new publications on the cultural reception of Darwin and Darwinism. With a fresh scope that includes but also reaches beyond the «Darwinian
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1944- La Segunda Guerra Mundial Dia A Dia

by Ruben Ygua ...

En el transcurso de la Historia la opinión pública siempre ha sido manipulada. Para mantenernos informados dependemos de organismos especializados raramente independientes, subordinados al poder económico o ideologías políticas, moldando la opinión del ciudadano común a respecto de todos los asuntos de su interés. En la primera mitad del siglo XX, ese papel informativo era desempeñado por la ... Read more

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En el transcurso de la Historia la opinión pública siempre ha sido manipulada. Para mantenernos informados dependemos de organismos especializados raramente independientes, subordinados al poder económico o ideologías políticas, moldando la opinión del ciudadano común a respecto de todos los asuntos de su interés. En la primera mitad del siglo XX, ese papel informativo era desempeñado por la
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Lyric Incarnate

The dramas of Aleksandr Blok

by Timothy Westphalen ...

Lyric Incarnate examines the plays of Aleksandr Blok, the pre-eminent poet of Russian Symbolism and one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. Blok's plays have received less attention than his poetry in the West, and this book is the first and only English-language monograph devoted to Blok the playwright. In chronological succession, each of Blok's major plays is examined in detail. ... Read more

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Lyric Incarnate examines the plays of Aleksandr Blok, the pre-eminent poet of Russian Symbolism and one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. Blok's plays have received less attention than his poetry in the West, and this book is the first and only English-language monograph devoted to Blok the playwright. In chronological succession, each of Blok's major plays is examined in detail.
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From Gorky to Pasternak

Six Modern Russian Writers

by Helen Muchnic ...

Series series Routledge Library Editions: Russian and Soviet Literature
This book, first published in 1961, traces the lives and works of six outstanding Russian authors, each of whom is interesting and important in himself, as well as for his contribution to Russian letters. As personalities they are extremely varied, and also as artists, so much so that each of them might be studied as the centre of a distinct school of writing. Taken as a group they are a microcosm ... Read more

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This book, first published in 1961, traces the lives and works of six outstanding Russian authors, each of whom is interesting and important in himself, as well as for his contribution to Russian letters. As personalities they are extremely varied, and also as artists, so much so that each of them might be studied as the centre of a distinct school of writing. Taken as a group they are a microcosm
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Ideologiekritik und Deutschunterricht heute?

Analysen und Handlungsansaetze 50 Jahre nach Gruendung des Bremer Kollektivs

Edited by Steffen Gailberger, Ralph Köhnen ...

Series Book 14 - Positionen der Deutschdidaktik
Vor 50 Jahren erschien Heinz Ides "Bestandsaufnahme Deutschunterricht", die Gründungsurkunde des Bremer Kollektivs. In ihr wurde der damalige Deutschunterricht einer radikalen Kritik unterzogen und mit Blick auf die gesellschaftlichen Ereignisse und Entwicklungen auf eine neue, ideologiekritische Basis gestellt. Das Kollektiv wirkte so produktiv wie einflussreich, ehe es sich 1980 wieder auflöste. ... Read more

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Vor 50 Jahren erschien Heinz Ides "Bestandsaufnahme Deutschunterricht", die Gründungsurkunde des Bremer Kollektivs. In ihr wurde der damalige Deutschunterricht einer radikalen Kritik unterzogen und mit Blick auf die gesellschaftlichen Ereignisse und Entwicklungen auf eine neue, ideologiekritische Basis gestellt. Das Kollektiv wirkte so produktiv wie einflussreich, ehe es sich 1980 wieder auflöste.
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Transnationale Akzente: Zur vermittelnden Funktion von Literatur- und Kulturzeitschriften im Europa des 20. Jahrhunderts

Edited by Michael Peter Hehl, Heribert Tommek ...

Series Book 2 - Studien zur Geschichte europaeischer Periodika / Studies in the History of European Periodicals
Literatur- und Kulturzeitschriften gehören ganz selbstverständlich zum kulturellen Erbe Europas. Der Sammelband geht der Frage nach, inwiefern Zeitschriften einen transnationalen Diskursraum bilden, in dem sich unterschiedliche Diskurse wie etwa Ästhetik und Politik kreuzen und überlagern. In Einzelstudien werden diesbezüglich Zeitschriften wie Akzente, Sinn und Form, Tel Quel, Kontinent und Der ... Read more

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Literatur- und Kulturzeitschriften gehören ganz selbstverständlich zum kulturellen Erbe Europas. Der Sammelband geht der Frage nach, inwiefern Zeitschriften einen transnationalen Diskursraum bilden, in dem sich unterschiedliche Diskurse wie etwa Ästhetik und Politik kreuzen und überlagern. In Einzelstudien werden diesbezüglich Zeitschriften wie Akzente, Sinn und Form, Tel Quel, Kontinent und Der
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Birth of the Intelligentsia – 1750–1831

A History of the Polish Intelligentsia – Part 1, edited by Jerzy Jedlicki

by Anna Wolff-Poweska, Maciej Janowski ...

Series Book 7 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
The three-part work provides a first synthetic account of the history of the Polish intelligentsia from the days of its formation to World War I. Part one (1750–1831) traces the formation of the intelligentsia as a social class in the epoch of Enlightenment. It stresses the importance of the birth of bureaucratic institutions that created the demand for the educated stratum. It analyses the ... Read more

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The three-part work provides a first synthetic account of the history of the Polish intelligentsia from the days of its formation to World War I. Part one (1750–1831) traces the formation of the intelligentsia as a social class in the epoch of Enlightenment. It stresses the importance of the birth of bureaucratic institutions that created the demand for the educated stratum. It analyses the
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John Berryman

Centenary Essays

Edited by Philip Coleman, Peter Campion ...

Drawing on the proceedings of two conferences organized to celebrate the centenary of John Berryman’s birth in 2014, John Berryman: Centenary Essays provides new perspectives on a major US American poet’s work by critics from Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. In addition to new readings of important aspects of Berryman’s development – including his creative and scholarly ... Read more

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Drawing on the proceedings of two conferences organized to celebrate the centenary of John Berryman’s birth in 2014, John Berryman: Centenary Essays provides new perspectives on a major US American poet’s work by critics from Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. In addition to new readings of important aspects of Berryman’s development – including his creative and scholarly
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Walter Mueller-Seidels fragmentarischer Erinnerungsbericht

Autobiographik und Wissenschaft im 20. Jahrhundert

by Anna Axtner-Borsutzky ...

Series Book 89 - Mikrokosmos
Der Münchener Ordinarius für Neuere deutsche Literatur Walter Müller-Seidel (1918–2010) arbeitete seit seiner Emeritierung (1986) an einer unvollendet gebliebenen, autobiographischen Schrift mit dem Titel Gegengewichte. Zeitgeschichtliche Erinnerungen (1928–1958). In der hier vorgelegten Untersuchung werden die im Deutschen Literaturarchiv Marbach aufbewahrten Fragmente dieses «Erinnerungsberichts ... Read more

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Der Münchener Ordinarius für Neuere deutsche Literatur Walter Müller-Seidel (1918–2010) arbeitete seit seiner Emeritierung (1986) an einer unvollendet gebliebenen, autobiographischen Schrift mit dem Titel Gegengewichte. Zeitgeschichtliche Erinnerungen (1928–1958). In der hier vorgelegten Untersuchung werden die im Deutschen Literaturarchiv Marbach aufbewahrten Fragmente dieses «Erinnerungsberichts
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How the Soviet Jew Was Made

by Sasha Senderovich ...

National Jewish Book Awards FinalistA close reading of postrevolutionary Russian and Yiddish literature and film recasts the Soviet Jew as a novel cultural figure: not just a minority but an ambivalent character navigating between the Jewish past and Bolshevik modernity.The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the Jewish community of the former tsarist empire. The Pale of Settlement on the ... Read more

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National Jewish Book Awards FinalistA close reading of postrevolutionary Russian and Yiddish literature and film recasts the Soviet Jew as a novel cultural figure: not just a minority but an ambivalent character navigating between the Jewish past and Bolshevik modernity.The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the Jewish community of the former tsarist empire. The Pale of Settlement on the
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Translating Novels from Putin's Russia

by Sarah Gear ...

Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
This book explores the impact of political bias on the translation of contemporary Russian fiction into English and its reception in the UK and US between 2008 and 2022.It also surveys the post-Ukraine invasion literary landscape and provides an overview of post-2022 tamizdat literary networks which publish Russophone literature outside of Russia and free of censorship. By analysing novels from ... Read more

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This book explores the impact of political bias on the translation of contemporary Russian fiction into English and its reception in the UK and US between 2008 and 2022.It also surveys the post-Ukraine invasion literary landscape and provides an overview of post-2022 tamizdat literary networks which publish Russophone literature outside of Russia and free of censorship. By analysing novels from
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English Loan Translations in Polish

Word-formation Patterns, Lexicalization, Idiomaticity and Institutionalization

by Alicja Witalisz ...

Series Book 7 - Studies in Language, Culture and Society
This volume on language contact is a corpus-based descriptive and theoretical study of the Polish translations of English one- and multi-word polymorphemic expressions. The formation of loan translations is unique among strategies in lexical development as it involves three processes: borrowing, word-formation and semantic change. The study explores morphosyntactic, semantic and extralinguistic ... Read more

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This volume on language contact is a corpus-based descriptive and theoretical study of the Polish translations of English one- and multi-word polymorphemic expressions. The formation of loan translations is unique among strategies in lexical development as it involves three processes: borrowing, word-formation and semantic change. The study explores morphosyntactic, semantic and extralinguistic
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Chekhov's Children

Context and Text in Late Imperial Russia

by Nadya Peterson ...

Anton Chekhov's representations of children have generally remained on the periphery of scholarly attention. Yet his stories about children, which focus on communication and the emergence of personhood, also illuminate the process by which the author forged his own language of expression and occupy a uniquely important place within his work.Chekhov's Children explores these stories – dating from ... Read more

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Anton Chekhov's representations of children have generally remained on the periphery of scholarly attention. Yet his stories about children, which focus on communication and the emergence of personhood, also illuminate the process by which the author forged his own language of expression and occupy a uniquely important place within his work.Chekhov's Children explores these stories – dating from
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