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Reading Dostoyevsky requires a certain willingness to be saddened by his story. What drives a reader to engage and persevere in this extreme emotional trial is the author’s consummate skill in storytelling. In this early work the villain fares much b
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"And, indeed, it would be difficult to find a creature stranger or more original—in appearance, at least. Small of stature, with flashing black eyes, which looked somehow foreign, with a mass of thick, dishevelled black hair, and a mute, fixed, enigmatic gaze, she would have attracted the notice of anyone who passed her in the street. The expression in her eyes was particularly striking! There was a light of intellect" — 17 hours, 37 min ago
"And, indeed, it would be difficult to find a creature stranger or more original—in appearance, at least. Small of stature, with flashing black eyes, which looked somehow foreign, with a mass of thick, dishevelled black hair, and a mute, fixed, enigmatic gaze, she would have attracted the notice of anyone who passed her in the street. The expression in her eyes was particularly striking! There was a light of intellect" — 17 hours, 37 min ago
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"Most of the early-Québec stuff about Cartier and Robeval and Cap Rouge and ... Hal’d found mostly dry and repetitive, the wig-and-jerkin gentlemanly warfare stilted and absurd, like slow-motion slapstick, though everyone’d been sort of queasily intrigued by the way the English Commander Amherst had handled the Hurons by dispensing free blankets and buckskin that had been carefully coated with smallpox ‘variola.’" — Oct 17, 2026 10:45AM
"Most of the early-Québec stuff about Cartier and Robeval and Cap Rouge and ... Hal’d found mostly dry and repetitive, the wig-and-jerkin gentlemanly warfare stilted and absurd, like slow-motion slapstick, though everyone’d been sort of queasily intrigued by the way the English Commander Amherst had handled the Hurons by dispensing free blankets and buckskin that had been carefully coated with smallpox ‘variola.’" — Oct 17, 2026 10:45AM
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