By Fyordor Dostoevsky
Published: 1880
Episode: Maternity Leave
Reference: Locke gives it to Henry Gale to read in Maternity Leave.
Outline
The book is written on two levels: on the surface it is the story of a patricide in which all of the murdered man's sons share varying degrees of complicity but, on a deeper level, it is a spiritual drama of the moral struggles between faith, doubt, reason, and free will. The novel was composed mostly in Staraya Russa, which is also the main setting of the book..
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