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Review of Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov: An Unconventional Work of Fiction
image from good reads.com Due to the unique design, exceptional prose and verse, and ability to incite analysis, deep thought and a level of complexity with the possibility to cause utter confusion am… more →
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Review of Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov: An Unconventional Work of Fiction
wrote 2 weeks ago: image from good reads.com Due to the unique design, exceptional prose and verse, and ability to inci … more →
97. Notes from Underground
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wrote 2 months ago: Fyodor Dostoevsky — Vintage Classics, 1994 — 9780679734529 I am a sick man … I am … more →
Review Praise and Admiration for You Will Hear Thunder: Poems by Anna Akhmatova with a translation by D.M. Thomas
wrote 2 months ago: 30 Book Challenge: Book that is Most Like Your Life Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines a poet … more →
Life & Fate by Vasily Grossman
wrote 3 months ago: “Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone’s right to be different to be … more →
Russian Rivalry?
wrote 3 months ago: I always have been curious about how Fyodor Dostoevsky and Lev Tolstoy’s relations were; I assumed t … more →
Russian Literature & how much I love it
wrote 4 months ago: That’s it; it’s settled. Russian Literature is the love of my life and it is better than … more →
Selected Quotations from Dr. Zhivago
wrote 4 months ago: “He knew he had inherited this trait and with self-conscious alertness caught signs of it in himself … more →
Prologue - Building the List
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wrote 5 months ago: While cleaning my apartment a few weeks ago, I was reacquainted with my ever-growing stack of books … more →
Natasha
wrote 6 months ago: For class I have to bring in a copy of my favorite short story. Nabokov’s haunted me with his … more →
Lolita - Kristen
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wrote 7 months ago: In seventh grade, I had this English teacher who I thought was the bee’s knees. She let us do whatev … more →
WINCE N MYRA 7: The Duel
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The New Moscow Philosophy by Vyacheslav Pyetsukh
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wrote 9 months ago: Source- Review copy Translator – Krystyna Anna Steiger Vyacheslav Pyetsuka is a Russian writer … more →
REVIEW: The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
wrote 10 months ago: Audio CD – 6 disks (7 hours) Published 2006 by Recorded Books Classics Library (first publishe … more →
Tatyana's Growth in Eugene Onegin: from Innocence to Experience
wrote 10 months ago: One of the best examples in literature of a person learning and growing from a broken heart is that … more →
Review: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
wrote 10 months ago: 30 Day Book Challenge: Book I’ve Read the Most Number of Times Anna Karenina is a novel embe … more →
Review: Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
wrote 10 months ago: The conflict which exists for the character of Barzarov in Turgenev’s great masterpiece can be trace … more →
The Servant by S. T. Semyonov
wrote 11 months ago: I Gerasim returned to Moscow just at a time when it was hardest to find work, a short while before C … more →
Odds & Ends: Diary of a High-Functioning Madman Edition
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wrote 1 year ago: I fired, well, broke up with, well, kindly cancelled all future appointments with my therapist becau … more →
My Choices
wrote 1 year ago: Subject to change: The goals to complete: A Banned Book – Farenheit 415 A Book with a Wartime … more →
