All 3 Uses of
New World
in
The Idiot
- You may be quite sure that he reached the culminating point of his happiness three days before he saw the New World with his actual eyes, when his mutinous sailors wanted to tack about, and return to Europe!†
Chpt 3.5
- What did the New World matter after all?†
Chpt 3.5 *
- "But let these thirsty Russian souls find, like Columbus' discoverers, a new world; let them find the Russian world, let them search and discover all the gold and treasure that lies hid in the bosom of their own land!†
Chpt 4.7 *
Definitions:
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(New World) the Americas (North, South, and Central with nearby islands) (also known as the Western Hemisphere -- which was new to Europe in the 16th century)
- (meaning too rare to warrant focus)