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The Color Purple

Celie is a poor, black girl in the American South of the 1930s. She is, at the age of fourteen, repeatedly raped by her father, has two children by him, and is then married off to a widower. There, she is abused, beaten, and forced to work without rest. Her sexual encounters with her husband are wre...

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Crime and Punishment

‘Crime and Punishment’ starts with Rodion Raskolnikov, a poor, intelligent student, dropping out of law school for want of funds. Just before he drops out, he writes a paper in which he develops a theory that is both brilliant and appalling. In it, he proposes that the world consists of ...