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MUMU
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By Ivan Turgenev I That evening Kuzma Vassilyevitch Yergunov told us his story again. He…
FIRST LOVE
By Ivan Turgenev (1860) THE guests had long since departed. The clock struck half-past twelve.…
CLARA MILITCH
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NONA VINCENT
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By Guy de Maupassant George’s father was sitting in an iron chair, watching his little…
LITTLE LOUISE ROQUE
By Guy de Maupassant The former soldier, Mederic Rompel, familiarly called Mederic by the country…
Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka Translated by David Wyllie I One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from…
Zirpen – III
Drittes Zirpen. Charles Dickons Die Schwarzwälder Uhr in der Ecke schlug zehn, als der Fuhrmann…