Opening
The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Translated by Eva Martin
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Part 1 of 5 · Fyodor Dostoyevsky · Public domain text
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Towards the end of November, during a thaw, at nine o’clock one morning, a train on the Warsaw and Petersburg railway was approaching the latter city at full speed. The morning…
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