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Robert Chandler - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

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Liskov's Lady Macbeth

Liskov is one of the two 19th century writers who really know about the Orthodox Church more than Dostoeth's given. His politics was always kind of shifting. He seemed to quite often change his mind and alienate everybody in the process. Quite a lot of his work is very very difficult to translate much more so than Yevtozdowie Dostoevsky. Really dense with word play. And the characters coming out with most wonderful malapropism.

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