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Alexander Sergevitch Pushkin was born in 1799 at Pskoff, and was a scion of an ancient Russian family. In one of his letters it is recorded that no less than six Pushkins signed the Charta declaratory of the election of the Romanoff family to the throne of Russia, and that two more affixed their marks from inability to write. In 1811 he entered the…

What happens when two people with completely opposite personalities meet in this life? She’s madly in love, also smart, rich, yet… very unattractive. He’s a rake who’s already managed to charm dozens of women. No wonder. After all, he’s so handsome that he’s considered the most handsome man of his time. A well-born but impoverished officer, a brilliant commander, a veteran of the Napoleonic…

Publishing a book used to be simple in concept and brutal in practice. You wrote it, you found an agent, the agent found a publisher, the publisher decided your fate. If that chain broke anywhere — and it usually did — your book went nowhere. The manuscript sat in a drawer, or worse, in a box in a garage. That world hasn’t disappeared. Traditional…

Sometimes you read a book or a story and believe the author. It’s written so clearly, it touches your soul, you understand—it really happened that way, and the characters are so real before your eyes. Why does this work for some authors and not for others? You might say: I need to write in the realism genre, maybe then everything I describe will feel…
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