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The Duel

✍ Scribed by Anton Chekhov

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group;The Modern Library
Year: 2007;2003
Tongue: English
Weight: 122 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0307432157

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✦ Synopsis

When Laevsky, a lazy youth who works for the government, tires of his dependent mistress, Nadyezhda Fyodorovna, Von Koren, the scientist, delivers a scathing critique of Laevsky's egotism, forcing the young man to examine his soul. The verbal battle of wits and ethics finally explodes into a violent contest: the duel.

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