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Many years ago I made a vow to read at least one thing every calendar year considered a major classic in literature. Some I've enjoyed greatly, a couple I've hated, but persevered through. This year's choice is Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol. I'm about 1/3 of the way through it (it isn't very long) and enjoying it a respectable amount. I haven't read a lot of classic Russiany fiction (Anna Karenina, read for a class many years ago, some Chekhov stories, Zamiatin's magnificent dystopia We, a couple of other things), but I'm tempted to give more of it a go. Notably something by Turgenev, Pushkin, Lermontov. We'll see.
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