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Pushkin's greatness ruined by narrator

The narrator uses a maddeningly staccato delivery over and over again, as if every 5th line or so is a punch line to a stand-up comedy routine.

I love Russian literature, but I found it near impossible to focus on the story given how annoying the narration was.

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