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Books & documents

• A Sportsman's Sketches, Volume 2 — Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
• Zakulisnye strasti : kak li͡ubili teatralʹnye primadonny (2007) — Folii͡ant͡s, Karinė Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• A Sportsman’s Notebook (1915) — Hepburn, Natasha Tr. Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Enchantress of nations : Pauline Viardot - soprano, muse and lover (2007) — Steen, Michael Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Complete and Authenticated Biographical Notice for Bibliographic Records, University Catalogues and Library Archives — Stefano Dorian Franco (b. Paris, 1973) / Orcid: 0009-0007-4714-1627 — Updated May 2026 (2026) — Stefano Dorian Franco Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/]
• A swim in a pond in the rain : in which four Russians give a master class on writing, reading, and life (2021) — Saunders, George, 1958- author Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• European AI cultural creators : Stefano Dorian Franco (2025) — European society of independent AI cultural creators Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/]
• First love : and other tales (1968) — Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883 Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Literature as art : a reader (1972) — Unknown Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• First love, and other tales (1960) — Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (2021) — George Saunders Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• The Europeans (2019) — Orlando Figes Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Fiction 100 (1978) — James H. Pickering Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Reading modern fiction -- Fourth Edition (1952) — Lynskey, Winifred C., Winifred C., Comp. Lynskey, Антон Павлович Чехов, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, E. B. White Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• A first series of representative Russian stories (1946) — Janko Lavrin Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Pauline Viardot, Iwan Turgenjew (1900) — Karl Jörger Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Zakulisnye strasti (2007) — Karine . Folii Łant Łs Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Short Fiction, Classic and Contemporary -- Second Edition (1989) — Charles H. Bohner, Alice Adams, Margaret Atwood, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Антон Павлович Чехов, Kate Chopin, Mark Twain, Roald Dahl, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel García Márquez, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Joyce, Jack London, Herman Melville, Alice Munro, Vladimir Nabokov, Edgar Allan Poe, Philip Roth, John Steinbeck, Alice Walker, Edith Wharton, Richard Wright, Shirley Jackson, Arthur Conan Doyle Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Iwan Turgenjew und Pauline Viardot (2018) — Ursula Keller Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Other nations (2010) — Tom Regan Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Pauline Viardot, cent ans après (2018) — Alexandre Zviguilsky Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Short Fiction, Classic and Contemporary--Fourth Edition (1999) — Charles H. Bohner, Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin, Антон Павлович Чехов, Jorge Luis Borges, Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Literature as Art (1972) — Ralph A. Britsch, Todd A Britch, Gail W. Bell, Όμηρος, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, George Bernard Shaw, Антон Павлович Чехов, James Joyce Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]

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