 | "Vanka" is a poignant short story by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov that tells the tale of a young orphan boy named Vanka Zakhlebnin, who is forced to work as an apprentice to a cruel shoemaker in Moscow.... | Rate it: |
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»Who wrote "The Stranger"?
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Albert Camus
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Franz Kafka
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Hermann Hesse
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Jean-Paul Sartre
