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5 days ago · Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Novelist, Philosopher, Russia: Written at the same time as The Gambler, Prestupleniye i nakazaniye (1866; Crime and Punishment) describes a young intellectual, Raskolnikov, willing to gamble on ideas.
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4 days ago · The protagonist of the novel Crime and Punishment, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an ex-law student, murders his pawnbroker. In his case, there are layers to the motive behind his crime. Firstly, he murdered Alyona Ivanova to find an easy way out of his abject poverty. The novel despairingly describes the wretchedness of St. Petersburg.
21 hours ago · Crime and Punishment follows the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in Saint Petersburg who plans to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker, an old woman who stores money and valuable objects in her flat. He theorises that with the money he could liberate himself from poverty and go on to perform great ...
5 days ago · Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Russian Novelist, Crime & Punishment: The first work Dostoyevsky published was a rather free and emotionally intensified translation of Honoré de Balzac’s novel Eugénie Grandet; and the French writer’s oeuvre was to exercise a great influence on his own fiction.
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1 day ago · Crime and Punishment Multiple Choice Quiz | 10 Questions How well do you know this extensive and extremely detailed masterpiece of murder and the consequences that come with it? A multiple-choice quiz by penguin16 .
5 days ago · 1. What is the FULL name of the main character and protagonist? Hint. Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov. Semyon Zaharovitch Marmeladov. Dmitri Prokofitch Razumikhin. Sofia Semyonovna Marmeladov.
2 days ago · From detective novels to cosy crime series, discover our edit of the best new crime fiction of 2024, a look back at 2023 and 2022, and the best of all time.
