Russian novels tend to be about as big and sprawling as that larger-than-life country itself: Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Tolstoy’s War and Peace, Goncharov’s Oblomov, Solzhenitsyn’s Cancer Ward, and the crowd-pleasing Doctor Zhivago by Pasternak. Each stretches well over 500 pages—and even the “short” stories of Chekhov can border on novellas. So it should probably come as no surprise that…
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