{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5e7a","title":"A Clump Of Lilacs","publish_year":1916,"author":"Aleksandr I. Kuprin","rating":3,"code":"a-clump-of-lilacs","words":2040,"image":"lilacs.jpg","image_alt":"A bunch of lilacs flowers. Graphite filter.","genres":["literary"],"blurb":"Nikolai Yevgrafovitch Almazof hardly waited for his wife to open the door to him; he went straight to his study without taking off his hat or coat. His wife knew in a moment by his frowning face and nervously-bitten underlip that a great misfortune had occurred.","description":"Army officer and student Nikolai accidentally blotches his survey drawing, his bluff that it was just a small bush fails. He is distraught and sure that the examiners will accuse him of having copied the survey from someone else, but his wife comes up with a plan...","original_language":"Russian","translators":["Rosa Savary Graham","Stephen Graham"],"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}