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A businesswoman created by this author seductively addresses the protagonist as “Aeneas” as they take shelter from a storm while riding horses in the woods. In a novella by this author, the narrator hopes that he is the “man by the fountain” in a parable told by his love interest, from whom he wins a kiss in a game of forfeits against a doctor, a hussar, (10[1])and a poet. The jealous narrator of that novella by this author takes a knife to a garden, only to discover his father is his rival for a woman who calls him “Woldemar.” (10[2])A novella by this author in which the confectioner’s daughter Gemma enthralls Sanin in Frankfurt was partly inspired by this author’s love for Pauline (10[1])Viardot. (10[3])In a novella (10[3])by this author, the teenager Vladimir falls (10[1])for Princess Zinaída. For 10 points, name this Russian author of Spring (-5[1])Torrents (10[1])and First Love. (10[1])■END■ (10[4]0[4])

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