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  • The fancy names sted to Wexford that he might expect a slumminess, for at home Vale Road d be the site of residential elegance and a Grove of squalor.

    Put On By Cunning Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1981

  • For all its garishness and slumminess, Rostov, with its Scythian, Greek and Cossack overtones, lifts the spirits, as do the open steppes and merchants 'villas of Chekhov's home town, Taganrog.

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