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In 1942, an Antwerp family named Hartmann lost everything. Eighty years later, their granddaughter Eva is still waiting for it back. Rowan Voss is an independent antique picker who notices the wrong things in the right order. At a provincial Belgian auction, they find a small silver salt cellar — excellent provenance, excellent chasing, and a weight that isn’t quite right. The deeper Rowan…- 1.8 K • New
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- This is an unfinished historical novel, which is now considered to be Pushkin’s first prose work. The author began writing the novel towards the end of July, 1827 in Mikhailovskoe and in spring 1828 he is recorded to have read several drafts to his friends. During Pushkin’s lifetime, only two fragments of the work were published in the literary magazine Severnye Tsvety in 1829…
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This historical novella was first published in 1836 in the fourth issue of the literary journal Sovremennik. It is a romanticised account of Pugachev’s Rebellion in 1773-1774, which was the principal revolt in a series of popular rebellions that took place in Russia after Catherine II seized power in 1762. It began as an organised insurrection of Yaik Cossacks headed by Yemelyan Pugachev, a…- 3.0 K • Jun 11, '26
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