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Vanity and Greed: Two Stories

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Nikolai Alexandrovich Leykin, as always, vividly and vividly depicts the vices that give the two stories in this collection their names. In the first story, a merchant who considers himself superior to his "gray" peers strives to impress high society, while in the second, a retired official, reminiscent of a stingy knight, scrimps on every penny, even on the bare necessities, to build his investments. However, the author doesn't stop there: although the colors are deliberately exaggerated for greater comedy, his characters are multifaceted and deeply human in all their manifestations. Written over a hundred years ago, these texts are truly relevant in all times, because neither vanity nor greed change. Only the details change, which, incidentally, the author has very keenly observed and make the work interesting from the perspective of Russian history.
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