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Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoevsky

This is one of the books which was inherited by us many moons ago and I added it to my 2011 Reading List to make sure that I got around to reading it this year, at last. It’s a series of letters...

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Selected Stories by Anton Chekov

I bought this wee paperback book from a local second-hand bookshop which has sadly closed down now – such is the way of the world. I used to love browsing in it and almost always found at least one...

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The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Alexei Ivanovich is a young man who is tutor to the children of a Russian general. He has sworn an oath of undying love for Polina, a young relative of the general and they are all on holiday in a...

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Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was first published in 1842. In the author’s preface he says that he wrote the book to show commonplace types of Russian people and the vices, weaknesses and...

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Classics Club Spin – it’s number 8

Well the Classics Club Spin number is 8 and for me that means Oblomov by Goncharov. I admit that I bought this books years ago, just because it’s a lovely edition, a red leather-ish cover with silver...

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The Classics Club Spin – Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov

I’ve had Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov sitting on a shelf for over 20 years (maybe even 30) and when I bought it I hadn’t even heard of the book before. I freely admit I was drawn to the book by its...

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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

I’ve had Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy on my Classics Club reading list for years now and I’ve been put off reading it for a couple of reasons – namely the 800 odd pages and also the fact that I knew...

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Classics Club Spin # 20 – The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov

I’m going to be reading The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov for The Classics Club Spin # 20 as the number that came up in the spin is 19, and I have to read it by the 31st of May. I’m particularly...

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The White Guard by Mikhael Bulgakov Classics Club spin

I got The White Guard in the Classics Club Spin which was almost ideal really as I was reading it while on my way to Russia, except I was going to St Petersburg, not Kiev which is the setting of the...

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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

TracyK of Bitter Tea and Mystery and I decided to read this book, it was on our Classics Club lists and it was a good way of making sure that I got around to reading it anyway. You can read her...

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