Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
World Book Club
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Katerina Ivanovna - A Novel About a Poor Mother
We've been focusing a lot on raskolnikov, but the novel does spread out beyond him to show usthe nineteenth century saint petersburg in which he lives. We see very clearly that he isn't the only person who's struggling with desperate poverty. And one of the saddest is sonya's mother, who katerina ivanovna, who has tuberculosis,. She has been driven insane by her husband's recklessness as he just gambles all the money away. On top of this, is a terrib snob. So the fact that her family has fallen into this sad situation is adding to her insanity. In order to earn a few penn
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