
Contradictory motives and theories all draw him to the crime. He decides to solve all his problems at a stroke by murdering an old pawnbroker woman. 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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