TY - BOOK AU - Kuprin,A.I. TI - The duel AV - PG PY - 2013/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Russia -- Fiction KW - Dueling -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Duel_(Kuprin_novel); Translation of: Поединок; Release date is 2013-11-06; Produced by sp1nd, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive); Original publication data not identified N2 - "The duel" by A. I. Kuprin is a novel published in 1905. An intelligent young officer stationed at a dreary Russian military garrison struggles against the brutality and stupidity surrounding him. When he falls for Shurochka, a fellow officer's wife, he mistakes her compassion for genuine feeling. She harbors darker ambitions. Their affair sets in motion a fatal confrontation that exposes both personal betrayal and the moral decay of military society. Published after Russia's defeat in the Russo-Japanese War, the novel earned Kuprin widespread acclaim. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44117 ER -