Practice question · Numerical answer
Dostoevsky wrote The Gambler under contract in how many days, to the nearest day?
Hints
- Under a month.
- Twenty-six days.
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26 (answers within ±2 count)
Why
26 days, dictated to a stenographer to meet a contract that would otherwise have cost him the rights to his existing works. He was in debt from gambling while writing a novel about gambling debt, and the stenographer, Anna Snitkina, later married him.
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