Kuprin, Alexandre: Yama (The Pit), v.1, 8 March 2009.
Alexandre Kuprin (1870-1938)
Yama (The Pit): A Novel in Three Parts
Translated from the Russian by Bernard Guilbert Guerney.
(1915)
A novel describing the life of the inmates in a Russian brothel. Its naturalistic depiction owes a great deal to Zola and the Goncourt brothers.
The source was a PG text file, which needed a fair amount of attention.
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