| 1 | Introduction to the course. |
| 2 | Russian society under the Tsars. |
| 3 | Turgenev's life. |
| 4 | Reading Sketches from a Hunter's Album |
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| 10 | A Turgenev story compared with one by Shimazaki Toson |
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| 12 | A Turgenev story compared with one by George Moore |
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| 14 | French society in the nineteenth century |
| 15 | Life of Maupassant. |
| 16 | Reading Maupassant stories |
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| 25 | A Maupassant story compared with its imitation by Henry James |
| 26 | A Maupassant story compared with its imitation by Somerset Maugham |