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Crime and Punishment: Part IV, Chapters 1-4
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Crime and Punishment: Part IV, Chapters 1-4

“I don’t feel well; I’m not at peace. . . .”

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Illuminations in St. Petersburg, 1869 by Fyodor Vasilyev

Hello, readers!

Not a whole lot happened in this week’s chapters. We’re into a couple of weeks of reading where the plot just doesn’t advance a whole lot and the character work takes center stage.

With that focus on the characters, we did get a real sense of Luzhin’s unpleasantness. His exit was a …

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