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Rodion Raskolnikov, the main character of the book, plans to kill a pawnbroker for money. He finds himself with moral dilemmas and guilt.
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The novel describes the Imperial Russian society and the affair between Anna and Count Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky, who are forced to leave Russia to find peace and happiness.
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The main characters are the Devil, the Master and Margarita. She sells her soul to the Devil to release the Master she loved.
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The Brothers Karamazov: A novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue start learning
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The story is about Fyodor Karamazov and his three sons: Alyosha, Dmitry and Ivan. It includes ethical debates on God and morality.
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Five aristocratic families speak on the consequences of the French invasion and the era of Napoleon in Tsarist Russia.
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The stepfather of the 12-years-old Dolores, a middle-aged literature professor Humbert Humbert, is obsessed with his daughter and becomes sexually involved with her.
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Prince Myshkin is tangled; he is in love with two women. The action of the novel describes him as a honest man with a much higher moral integrity than that of the people who surround him.
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The novel portraits the flaws of the mentality of simple Russian people through the main character, Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov.
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Eugene Onegin rejects Tatyana and seduces her sister Olga. He will meet Tatyana years later and fall in love with her.
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Concerns the eternal conflict between generations and the moral differences of intellectuals and traditionalists. The main character, a physician called Bazarov denies everything beside science but falls in love.
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A satirized story of the Communist Revolution and its ideals. A dog named Sharik undergoes an experimental surgery to create a New Soviet man.
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The book satirizes the Russian intellectuals, who are portrayed by its main character, Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, a totally superfluous man who did not manage to take any serious decisions in his life.
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The narrator is travelling through the Caucasus Mountains, where he meets an old officer, Maxim Maximych. The officer tells a story about Pechorin, who promises Azamat to steal a horse in return for his sister Bela, who he is in love with.
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A young boy Yura is sent to his uncle after the death of his mother. He falls in love with little Lara, but becomes a doctor and marries another woman. Lara becomes a nurse and the meet at a military hospital.
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn start learning
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The novel describes a single day of Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, a prisoner in a Soviet labor camp.
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