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Monday, January 17, 2011

The Idiot - Opening

TOWARDS THE END of November, during a warm spell, at around nine o' clock in the morning, a train of the Petersburg-Warsaw line was approaching Petersburg at full stream. It was so damp and foggy that dawn could barely break; ten paces to right or left of the line it was hard to make out anything at all through the carriage windows.


FIRST VINTAGE CLASSICS EDITION, JULY 2003
Copyright 2001 by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
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