Not having read the Idiot, I don't know whether the characters were posh or not, but anyone of what today would be upper middle would fall into the bilingual group.

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164 weeks on the list by David Grann Vintage The story of a murder spree in 1920s Oklahoma that targeted Osage Indians, whose lands contained oil. The fledgling F.B.I. intervened, ineffectively.

Hopefully this admission is recognized as I attempt to write about Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers ... drunken Fyodor had his way with the town idiot, is clear about the folly of faith ...

The Vintage Deco series consists of nine novels that bring to life the 1920s, 100 years on. Picking up on the opulence and optimism of the era, it’s a celebration of some brilliant classics including ...

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov” (1880) bears a heavy burden. Most scholars regard this Russian classic — roughly ...

I was never a big fan of former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (one of the architects of the Vietnam War), but on one matter I thought he was dead right: He always felt a primary ...

and we also like the vintage-looking safety pins that come clipped together along with two small white buttons. Although this kit only comes with black and white thread, the thread is strong and ...

That was the position [Anders Nielsen] found himself in as work progresses on his “PC-XT from Scratch” project, which seeks to build a working mid-80s vintage IBM Model 5160 using as many ...

Mark-Paul Gosselaar Feels 'Awful' About Quiet on Set Allegations but Is Thankful He Came Out 'Unscathed' as Teen Actor Tiffani Thiessen Jokes She's 'Over the Hill' While Posing in Just a Sheet for ...