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Bilbo Baggins finds himself caught up in a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent

Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of Teffi Social Science as the coming disaster slowlyEarly in her literary career Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya, born in St. Petersburg in 1872, adopted the pen name of Teffi, and it is as Teffi that she is remembered. In prerevolutionary Russia she was a literary star, known for her humorous satirical pieces; in the 1920s and 30s, she wrote some of her finest stories in exile in Paris, recalling her unforgettable encounters with Rasputin, and her hopeful visit at age thirteen to Tolstoy after reading War and