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‘Environment’; ‘The Boy with His Hand Out’; ‘The Boy at Christ’s Christmas Party’; ‘The Peasant Marey’; ‘ My Paradox’; ‘The Death of George Sand’; ‘A Few Words About George Sand’: selected from ‘A Writer’s Diary’ Volume One, translated by Kenneth Lantz. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1994. ‘The Boy Celebrating His Saint’s Day’; ‘Anna Karenina as a Fact of Special Importance’; ‘A Lie Is Saved by a Lie’; ‘Pushkin (A Sketch)’: selected from ‘A Writer’s Diary’ Volume Two, translated by Kenneth Lantz. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1994. Copyright © 1994 Northwestern University Press. Published 1994. All rights reserved. ‘A Dream of a Ridiculous Man’ translated by Olga Shartse. Cover quote taken from ‘Something about Lying’, selected from ‘A Writer’s Diary’ Volume One, translated by Kenneth Lantz. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1994.

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