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The Grand Inquisitor

Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1880

This 1880 novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a satirical philosophical work. Set in 16th-century Seville during the Inquisition, it explores divine authority after Christ reappears and is subsequently arrested by the Grand Inquisitor.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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