Part 4, Chapter 4
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The Reading of Lazarus
From Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sonia reads the raising of Lazarus to Raskolnikov—the novel's central religious set piece, prefiguring his spiritual resurrection.
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