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The House of Mirth (Version 3)

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Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, a woman who is torn between her desire for luxurious living and a relationship based on mut…

Recollections of Imperial Russia

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Meriel Buchanan

In this memoir, Meriel Buchanan (9-5-1886 to 2-6-1959) links the history of Russia to powerful, lingering memories of her years living there…

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

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Various

This book is a compilation of scholarly lectures by distinguished experts delivered at Cambridge in August 1916. The titles of the lectures…

End Note

In The Iliad (Pope Translation)

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Homer

Homer’s Iliad is the first great work of Western literature. Composed in twenty-four books of Greek hexameter poetry, it portrays the events…

Part IV, Chapter 1

In The Idiot (Part 03 and 04)

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Ru…