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A collection of novellas written in the mid-to-late 19th century. The volume gathers stories bound by themes of childhood and early emotional awakenings within adult social worlds. In the first novella, an almost eleven-year-old boy visiting a lavish country estate near Moscow is drawn into the games, rivalries, and hidden tensions of the grown-ups, especially a mischievous blonde beauty,