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Description

Written in 1864, this novel is the first and strangest of Dostoevsky's masterpieces--and the source of those that followed. Violating literary conventions in ways never before attempted, this classic tells of a mid-19th-century Russian official's breakaway from society and descent... read more

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First Sentence

I AM a sick man. ... I am an angry man.

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  1. Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Author)
 

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