532 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The History of Literature
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Fyodor Dostoevsky: A Socialist
Fyodor Dostoevsky was sent to a French boarding school and then to a Moscow school with some other aristocrats. His mother died when he was fifteen, his father died in 1839. In 1843, Fyodor took a job as an engineer, but he was still working on his literary career. He wrote a novel called poor folk, his first novel. As its name suggests, it was a social novel and brought him into the world of the socialists.
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