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            <title>The Cloak</title>
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            <dc:creator>Gogol, Nikolay</dc:creator>
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            <description><![CDATA[In the department of——, but it is better not to mention the department. The touchiest things in the world are departments, regiments, courts of justice, in a word, all branches of public service. Each individual nowadays thinks all society insulted in his person. Quite recently, a complaint was received from a district chief of police in which he plainly demonstrated that all the imperial…]]></description>
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            <title>The District Doctor</title>
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            <dc:creator>Turgenev, Ivan</dc:creator>
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            <description><![CDATA[One day in autumn on my way back from a remote part of the country I caught cold and fell ill. Fortunately the fever attacked me in the district town at the inn; I sent for the doctor. In half-an-hour the district doctor appeared, a thin, dark-haired man of middle height. He prescribed me the usual sudorific, ordered a mustard-plaster to be put on,…]]></description>
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            <title>The Christmas Tree and the Wedding</title>
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            <dc:creator>Dostoyevsky, Fiodor</dc:creator>
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            <description><![CDATA[The other day I saw a wedding… But no! I would rather tell you about a Christmas tree. The wedding was superb. I liked it immensely. But the other incident was still finer. I don’t know why it is that the sight of the wedding reminded me of the Christmas tree. This is the way it happened: Exactly five years ago, on New Year’s…]]></description>
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            <title>God Sees the Truth, but Waits</title>
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            <dc:creator>Tolstoy, Leo</dc:creator>
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            <description><![CDATA[In the town of Vladimir lived a young merchant named Ivan Dmitrich Aksionov. He had two shops and a house of his own. Aksionov was a handsome, fair-haired, curly-headed fellow, full of fun, and very fond of singing. When quite a young man he had been given to drink, and was riotous when he had had too much; but after he married he gave…]]></description>
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            <title>How a Muzhik Fed Two Officials</title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 16:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
            <dc:creator>Saltykov-Shchedrin, Mikhail</dc:creator>
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            <description><![CDATA[Once upon a time there were two Officials. They were both empty-headed, and so they found themselves one day suddenly transported to an uninhabited isle, as if on a magic carpet. They had passed their whole life in a Government Department, where records were kept; had been born there, bred there, grown old there, and consequently hadn’t the least understanding for anything outside of…]]></description>
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            <title>The Shades, a Phantasy</title>
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            <dc:creator>Korolenko, Vladimir</dc:creator>
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            <description><![CDATA[I Amonth and two days had elapsed since the judges, amid the loud acclaim of the Athenian people, had pronounced the death sentence against the philosopher Socrates because he had sought to destroy faith in the gods. What the gadfly is to the horse Socrates was to Athens. The gadfly stings the horse in order to prevent it from dozing off and to keep…]]></description>
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            <title>The Signal</title>
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            <dc:creator>Garshin, Vsevolod</dc:creator>
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            <description><![CDATA[Semyon Ivanov was a track-walker. His hut was ten versts away from a railroad station in one direction and twelve versts away in the other. About four versts away there was a cotton mill that had opened the year before, and its tall chimney rose up darkly from behind the forest. The only dwellings around were the distant huts of the other track-walkers. Semyon…]]></description>
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            <title>The Darling</title>
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            <dc:creator>Chekhov, Anton</dc:creator>
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            <description><![CDATA[Olenka, the daughter of the retired collegiate assessor Plemyanikov, was sitting on the back-door steps of her house doing nothing. It was hot, the flies were nagging and teasing, and it was pleasant to think that it would soon be evening. Dark rain clouds were gathering from the east, wafting a breath of moisture every now and then. Kukin, who roomed in the wing…]]></description>
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            <title>The Bet</title>
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            <dc:creator>Chekhov, Anton</dc:creator>
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            <description><![CDATA[I It was a dark autumn night. The old banker was pacing from corner to corner of his study, recalling to his mind the party he gave in the autumn fifteen years before. There were many clever people at the party and much interesting conversation. They talked among other things of capital punishment. The guests, among them not a few scholars and journalists, for…]]></description>
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            <title>Vanka</title>
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            <dc:creator>Chekhov, Anton</dc:creator>
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            <description><![CDATA[Nine-year-old Vanka Zhukov, who had been apprentice to the shoemaker Aliakhin for three months, did not go to bed the night before Christmas. He waited till the master and mistress and the assistants had gone out to an early church-service, to procure from his employer’s cupboard a small phial of ink and a penholder with a rusty nib; then, spreading a crumpled sheet of…]]></description>
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