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- Hippykitty
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Try Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby, if you haven't already read it. Or a book which will wow you, if you are into something darkly amusing is: "A Fine and Private Place" by Peter Beagle.
- Dori
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Yurii Andreievich Zhivago
You have the first name, Yurii, the patronymic, Andreievich, and the last name, Zhivago. The patronymic is comprised of the father's first name (in this case, Andrei), with -evich or -ovich attached on the end. The nicknames are the hardest part, but they almost always are dervied from their first names. For example:
Innokentii = Nika
Larisa = Lara
Antonia =Tonia
Pavel = Pasha or Pashenka
et cetera . . .
Usually, I find in most books of Russian classics a "List of Principle Characters". My edition of Dr. Zhivago included one.
edit: I forgot about the patronymic for women. It's essentially the same thing except they end in -ovna.
- Cee-Jay Aurinko
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- Rabidwerewolfie
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A much more likely find in a library would be Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirstin Bakis. That book is not for everyone, of course, but it's become one of my personal favorites.
Unfortunately most of my recommendations are ebooks these days. Maybe I should take a trip to the library later.
- Londera
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- Brandi Noelle
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