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Dostoevsky🧵
A literary rockstar at 24. Almost executed by a firing squad at 28...
Exiled to Siberia. Returns to write some of the greatest books ever...
In his lesser-known letters and essays, we get a more intimate look at what he loved, hated, fiercely believed... See more
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Leo Tolstoy • Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
Indeed, people speak sometimes about the ‘animal’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to animals, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
December 22, 1849:
Hours after surviving the firing squad, Dostoevsky writes a letter to his brother https://t.co/3TW0eW7Tor