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...Excerpt: On comparing with the original Russian some English translations of Count Tolstoi?s works, published both in this country and in England, I concluded that they were far from being accurate. The majority of them were retranslations from the Fre...

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...Contents TRANSLATOR?S PREFACE ........................................... 4 THE KREUTZER SONATA............................................. 6 IVAN THE FOOL........................................................... 96 A LOST OPPORTUNITY ............................................ 123 POLIKUSHKA ......

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Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two.

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...Contents THE PURLOINED LETTER ...................................................................................................................................... 4 THE THOUSAND-AND-SECOND TALE OF SCHEHERAZADE..........................

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Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One.

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............................................................................................................................................... 14 DEATH OF EDGAR A. POE BY N. P. WILLIS........................................................................................................ 19 THE UNPARALLELED ADVENTURES OF ONE HANS PFAAL............................................

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...RA? DISCOURSES ................................................................................................................................ 33 I. THE THREE METAMORPHOSES ........................................................................................................................... 33 II. THE ACADEMIC CHAIRS OF VIRTUE............................................

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...Excerpt: My dear Walkley, you once asked me why I did not write a Don Juan play. The levity with which you assumed this frightful responsibility has probably by this time enabled you to forget it; but the day of reckoning has arrived: here is your play! I say your play, because qui facit per alium facit p...

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...Contents THE DEVIL IN THE BELFRY ................................................................................................................................... 4 LIONIZING ............................................................

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