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A 999-line poem and the mad commentary of the man who stole it; Nabokov's puzzle novel.

A married woman, a cavalry officer and a train; "all happy families are alike".

Three brothers, a murdered father and the Grand Inquisitor; Dostoevsky's last novel.

Prince Myshkin, too good for Petersburg society, and the woman two men destroy.

Bazarov the nihilist visits the country estate of his friend's family; Turgenev's generation gap.

Dostoevsky's tense moral descent of a guilty student (1866).

The timeless falling-blocks puzzle (1984).

Tolstoy's epic of Russia in the Napoleonic age (1869).