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Ambitious Expectations and April Reading
“My idea is-to become Rothschild. I invite the reader to calmness and seriousness”- Fyodor Dostoevsky The Adolescent translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. At the outset of this blog, I had high expectations of myself. I think my expectations have tempered down, at least for a little. I severely overestimated how long it would…
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What I’m Reading in March
“I’m describing all these scenes without sparing myself, in order to recall it all clearly and restor the impression” – Fyodor Dostoevsky in “The Adolescent” Hello everyone, and welcome! My name is Stephen Dalil. I am a freshman at the College of William & Mary with an infatuation with literature in translation, and American literature!…