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532 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The History of Literature

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The Importance of Peace

"I beg you, much esteemed Nikhil Nikafur, not to view my request for 300 rubles as in any way a condition for offering my peace to you," Dostoevsky writes. The novel Crime and Punishment was a success throughout the world. Translations into English and French followed by Virginia Woolf and James Joyce. "What obligations do we have toward one another? Are we free beyond the limits of law and morality?" he asks.

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