Book 7, Chapter 3 (An Onion)
Grushenka tells Alyosha the tale, then says she has only given one little onion in all her life.
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From The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grushenka's folk tale about a wicked woman whose single good deed - giving an onion to a beggar - nearly saves her from hell.
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