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The AP English Challenge rides again: Jill reviews Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment

I feel like there is some symmetry in when I finished Crime and Punishment.  I started it over Christmas break of 1993, which was just about twenty years ago.  Finishing it almost twenty years to the day after starting it … Continue reading

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That’s right, I’m skipping ahead. Pre-Reading Notes on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment (by Jill)

I can’t do Paradise Lost yet.  I just can’t.  I’ve started it.  I blundered through Book One and the first couple pages of Book Two.  But I, too, am afraid of John Milton and I need to plan out my … Continue reading

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