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A Boring Story
A frank extract from the notebook of an eminent - but aging - Russian professor.
(Fiction)
- Date Added: June 2001
- Length: 52 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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Agafya
A late night encounter between an intelligent but lazy village dropout and the peasant wife of a signalman.
(Fiction)
- Date Added: June 2001
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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Ariadne
A man falls in love with the sister of a ruined landowner, a predatory woman turned cold by a lust for money and status.
(Fiction)
- Date Added: June 2001
- Length: 23 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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Grief
Grief has a sobering effect on a drunkard craftsman as he takes his sick wife to hospital during a blizzard.
(Fiction)
- Date Added: June 2001
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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Lady with Lapdog
A bored middle-aged adulterer picks up a young married woman little expecting the great love that will develop.
(Fiction,Romance)
- Date Added: June 2001
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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Misfortune
Sophia, a beautiful married woman, and her neighbour Ilyin meet 'by accident' - he wants to declare his love for her, she to tell him to stop pursuing.
(Fiction)
- Date Added: June 2001
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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The Bet
During a dinner conversation concerning the relative cruelty of capital punishment and life imprisonment, a banker and a lawyer make a bet.
(Fiction)
- Date Added: November 2000
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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The Darling
The story of Olga, a woman who must always be in love with someone.
(Fiction)
- Date Added: June 2001
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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The Grasshopper
A woman marries a meek, scientifically minded doctor but can't help comparing him to her much-admired artistic friends.
(Fiction)
- Date Added: June 2001
- Length: 23 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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The Kiss
In the midst of manoeuvres, a young officer attends a dinner party at the home of the von Rabbeck family.
(Fiction)
- Date Added: August 2001
- Length: 18 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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Ward 6
Dr Ragin is honest and intelligent but lacks the strength of character to see to it that life around him is honest and intelligent - which has serious consequences for the psyciatric ward he runs.
(Fiction)
- Date Added: June 2001
- Length: 48 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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