Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding Russian paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot.
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Anton Chekhov, Aleksandr Kuprin, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Garshin Vsevolod, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grimm Brothers, Charles Dickens, Charles Perrault, Edgar Allan Poe, Hans Christian Andersen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Rider Haggard, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare, Leonard Arthur Magnus, Octave Mirbeau
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9 Meurtres à huis clos : Les enquêtes cultes
Conan Doyle, Maurice Leblanc, Edgar Alan Poe, Octave Mirbeau, GK Chesterton, Henry Cauvain
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Les Chats : À travers 17 textes cultes commentés de la littérature classique
Sylvain Trias, Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Renard, Charles Perrault, Jean de La Fontaine, Alexandre Dumas, Honoré de Balzac, Octave Mirbeau, Rudyard Kipling, Michel de Montaigne, Joachim du Bellay, Hyppolite Taine, Champfleury, François-Augustin Paradis de Moncrif
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Le Journal d'une Femme de Chambre
Octave Mirbeau
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Le Journal d'une Femme de Chambre
Octave Mirbeau
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Le Calvaire
Octave Mirbeau
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La 628-E8 : Comprenant en annexe le chapitre intégral "Balzac"
Octave Mirbeau
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Le jardin des supplices
Octave Mirbeau
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The Torture Garden
Octave Mirbeau
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A Chambermaid's Diary
Octave Mirbeau
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Torture Garden
Octave Mirbeau
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Le Journal d'une femme de chambre
Octave Mirbeau
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