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atone for (guilt or sin)
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The days of my youth, as I look back on them seem to fly aw…
The short white-sand strip of "our" beach-from which by now…
[...] Every now and then, immediately east of my left ear (…
[...] She believed, with a kind of celestial trust, any adv…
"You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are c…
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[...] How Pnin came to the Soedinyonnie Shtati (the United …
[...] On the contrary, he was perhaps too wary, too persist…
[...] Liza Bogolepov, a medical student just turned twenty,…
He also perused the current item in a tremendously long and…
Before leaving the library, he decided to look up the corre…
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[...] One night, during a trip abroad, in the fall of 1903,…
The sepia gloom of an arctic afternoon in midwinter invaded…
HAVE often noticed that after I had bestowed on the charact…
Presently my attention would wander still farther, and it w…
ON a summer morning, in the legendary Russia of my boyhood,…
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SOUNDS
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WINGSTROKE
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GODS
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A MATTER OF CHANCE
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THE SEAPORT
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REVENGE
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BENEFICENCE
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DETAILS OF A SUNSET
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THE THUNDERSTORM
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LA VENEZIANA
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BACHMANN
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THE DRAGON
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CHRISTMAS
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THE FIGHT
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THE RETURN OF CHORB
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A GUIDE TO BERLIN
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A NURSERY TALE
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TERROR
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RAZOR
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THE PASSENGER
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THE DOORBELL
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AN AFFAIR OF HONOR
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THE CHRISTMAS STORY
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THE POTATO ELF
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THE AURELIAN
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A DASHING FELLOW
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A BAD DAY
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THE VISIT TO THE MUSEUM
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A BUSY MAN
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TERRA INCOGNITA
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THE REUNION
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LIPS TO LIPS
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ORACHE
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MUSIC
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PERFECTION
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THE ADMIRALTY SPIRE
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THE LEONARDO
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THE CIRCLE
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A RUSSIAN BEAUTY
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BREAKING THE NEWS
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TORPID SMOKE
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RECRUITING
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A SLICE OF LIFE
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SPRING IN FIALTA
narrator has a long-lived affair with a woman named nina. love this. it hurts me
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CLOUD, CASTLE, LAKE
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TYRANTS DESTROYED
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LIK
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MADEMOISELLE O
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VASILIY SHISHKOV
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ULTIMA THULE
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SOLUS REX
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THE ASSISTANT PRODUCER
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“THAT IN ALEPPO ONCE …”
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A FORGOTTEN POET
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TIME AND EBB
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CONVERSATION PIECE, 1945
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SIGNS AND SYMBOLS
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FIRST LOVE
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THE VANE SISTERS
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LANCE
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