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The secret to reading more classics? Don’t treat them like homework.

I have never read Crime and Punishment (1867). I’ve been meaning to for years and thought my moment had come last winter , after a weekend spent researching the best translation for a Dostoevsky newbie. Then life happened, as it does, and the moment skittered on by. I set my brand-new copy on the shelf, and it has been sitting there ever since, spine uncracked, its pristine pages a testament to…

The secret to reading more classics? Don’t treat them like homework.

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