“I wanted to become a Napoleon, that is why I killed her…” Part 1 Rodion Raskolnikov, a destitute former student in St. Petersburg, plans to murder Alyona Ivanovna, […]
French literature
The Fall
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English literature
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“The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.” Part One: 1935 The […]