Unlike the lives of Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoi, and Dostoevski, subjects of other Troyat
biographies, Chekhov belongs to the twentieth century, an age of fretfulness and
melancholy skepticism.
(A) Unlike the lives of Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoi, and Dostoevski, subjects of other
Troyat biographies, Chekhov belongs
(B) Chekhov, unlike the other Troyat biographies of Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoi, and
Dostoevski, belongs
(C) The life of Chekhov, unlike the lives of the subjects of other Troyat biographies,
Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoi, and Dostoevski, belongs
(D) Chekhov and his life, unlike that of the other Troyat biographies--- Pushkin, Gogol,
Tolstoi, and Dostoevski, belong
(E) The life of Chekhov, unlike that of other Troyat biographies of Pushkin, Gogol,
Tolstoi, and Dostoevski, belongs

OA is C
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