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id: 51018
author: Tolstoy, Leo, graf
title: Three Days in the Village, and Other Sketches. Written from September 1909 to July 1910.
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words: 19401
sentence: 1288
flesch: 86
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summary:
  An enormous yearly-increasing army of beggars, cripples, administrative exiles, helpless old men, and above all unemployed workmen, lives--that is to say, shelters itself from cold and wet--and is actually fed by the hardest-worked and poorest class, the country peasants. In his conversation with me he admitted that, on the whole, it would be pleasanter not to serve at all; but he considered himself a useful functionary, because other men in his place would do even worse things.


id: 14480
author: Gorky, Maksim
title: Twenty-six and One, and Other Stories
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words: 29456
sentence: 2288
flesch: 91
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summary:
  Get along with you, friend, or the inspector'll see you; he-- The red-haired fellow who used to work with me on board the 'Kostroma,' continued Tchelkache, unmoved. mimicked Tchelkache, rising on his tottering limbs.


id: 5741
title: Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian
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words: 34647
sentence: 1823
flesch: 83
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summary:
  And now you have come to your senses; it is rather late in the day, old man, for the rest of us have known for a long time that he was the cheat of the regiment, said S., with difficulty restraining his laughter, and feeling very well satisfied with his fabrication. That's the reason of the friendship between them, old man


id: 55861
author: Gorky, Maksim
title: The Outcasts, and Other Stories
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words: 36483
sentence: 2357
flesch: 87
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summary:
  What a rogue you are, old man! scowled the captain, looking blankly into Tiapa's face. Come, you one-eyed beggar, let's recall old times and have a song!


id: 55577
author: Gorky, Maksim
title: Tales of Two Countries
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words: 40648
sentence: 2330
flesch: 85
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summary:
  Men, she continued like a child, for every mother is a hundred times a child in her soul, men are always children of their mothers, for everyone has a mother, everyone is somebody's son, even you, old man; a woman bore you. Let us bow down before her who through the centuries gives birth to great men.


id: 55283
author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
title: The Bet, and other stories
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words: 56283
sentence: 3877
flesch: 86
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summary:
  During supper he said to the lawyer jokingly: Come to your senses, young man, before it's too late. Heaven knows there aren't many young men nowadays.


id: 36238
author: Gogol, Nikolai Vasilevich
title: The Mantle, and Other Stories
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words: 56124
sentence: 3377
flesch: 84
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summary:
  At such times the tailor was extraordinarily ready to meet his customer's proposals with bows and gratitude to boot. So he stepped up to the Cossacks and said Good day, comrades.


id: 55024
author: Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich
title: The Queen of Spades, and other stories
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words: 57281
sentence: 3967
flesch: 83
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summary:
  My grandmother, who had no mercy for the extravagance of young men, made an exception--I do not know why--in favour of Tchaplitzki. Not being in the habit of exchanging glances with young men who passed by her window, she remained with her eyes fixed on her work for nearly two hours, until she was told that lunch was ready.


id: 7120
author: Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich
title: Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories
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words: 63842
sentence: 4373
flesch: 89
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summary:
  You've gone clean off your head, old man, he said with a jeer. Now, mind, old man, he added as he pulled the cord off his wrists, remember, I have spared you, mind that! Naum Ivanitch, my dear, faltered Yefrem, the Lord will have mercy upon you!


id: 56870
author: Gorky, Maksim
title: Tales from Gorky
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words: 65426
sentence: 4149
flesch: 87
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summary:
  and if he had poured into these three Christian words the holiest and purest feelings they would not have excited us, they would not have humanized us so much, as did that short and hollow: All right! Do not be afraid of us, good man! He succeeded in recalling himself as a child; he saw before him his village, his mother, a red-cheeked, plump woman, with good grey eyes, his father, a red-bearded giant with a stern face.


id: 55307
author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
title: The Black Monk, and Other Stories
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words: 68652
sentence: 4342
flesch: 84
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summary:
  And as he reflected upon this, it seemed all the more strange, since he knew himself in reality to be a sensitive, lachrymose old man. He knows that in this very moment, while his thoughts are sweeping round the sun with the cooling earth, in the hospital building in a line with his lodgings, lie men tortured by pain and tormented by uncleanliness; one cannot sleep owing to the insects, and howls in his pain; another is catching erysipelas, and groaning at the tightness of his bandages; others are playing cards with the nurses, and drinking vodka.


id: 13505
author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
title: The Duel and Other Stories
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words: 73948
sentence: 4565
flesch: 84
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summary:
  To Von Koren men are puppets and nonentities, too trivial to be the object of his life. He had in his day taken his degree at the university, but he now looked upon his studies as though in them he had discharged a duty incumbent upon young men between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five; at any rate, the ideas which now strayed every day through his mind had nothing in common with the university or the subjects he had studied there.


id: 40745
author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
title: Short Stories
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words: 82166
sentence: 5247
flesch: 84
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summary:
  Who she is--I imagine there is no need for you to know her name, young man. Excuse me, but perhaps I have offended you by calling you young man, but I had nothing ...


id: 13437
title: Best Russian Short Stories
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words: 97007
sentence: 6069
flesch: 84
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summary:
  Do you think so ill of me? Nor have you, I trust, ever seduced the wives of other men? I was an upright tanner and a good husband. My grandmother, who was always very severe upon the extravagance of young men, took pity, however, upon Chaplitzky.


id: 55219
author: Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich
title: The Prose Tales of Alexander Pushkin
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words: 124593
sentence: 7454
flesch: 80
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summary:
  It is no business of yours, old man, said my stroller, whether I sell it for drink or not. God be with you, old man!


id: 55636
author: Gorky, Maksim
title: Orlóff and His Wife: Tales of the Barefoot Brigade
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words: 134224
sentence: 8119
flesch: 85
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summary:
  Farewell for the present, then!--The little man went to the door, and from that spot he quietly asked: If anything should happen ... please give notice at the editorial office.... But is it possible that such men drink?


