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Language through Literature
Leo Tolstoy in Russian
Tolstoy wrote the longest novels in the language and some of its plainest short prose, and «После бала» is the second kind: a ball, a mazurka, and what the same man was doing at dawn. The sentences are ordinary; what they carry is not.
His works in the library
После бала — After the Ball
A ball, a mazurka, and what the same man was doing at dawn.
The other writers
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