The protagonist dreams of a peasant beating a mare to death
One of the characters in this novel dreams of trying to help an abused five-year-old girl who then tries to seduce him; in horror, that character kills himself after being rejected by the protagonist's sister. The protagonist dreams of a peasant beating a mare to death; he had previously been conversing with the drunkard Marmeladov on his way back home from Alyona Ivanovna, a pawnbroker. The protagonist's sister eventually breaks her engagement with the wealthy Luzhin in favor of the protagonist's university friend Razumikhin. FTP identify this novel centering on the consequences of the murder of Alyona and her sister Lizaveta by Raskolnikov, a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
One of the characters in this novel dreams of trying to help an abused five-year-old girl who then tries to seduce him; in horror, that character kills himself after being rejected by the protagonist's sister.
{Crime and Punishment} or {Prestupleniye i Nakazaniye}