buy Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866.
It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels following his return from ten years of exile in Siberia. Crime and Punishment is often cited as one of the supreme achievements in world literature
The story 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 deeds, and seeks to convince himself that certain crimes are justifiable if they are committed in order to remove obstacles to the higher goals of 'extraordinary' men. Once the deed is done, however, he finds himself racked with confusion, paranoia, and disgust. His theoretical justifications lose all their power as he struggles with guilt and horror and confronts both the internal and external consequences of his deed.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 – 18881) wrote of psychological penetration into the darkest recesses of the human heart, together with his unsurpassed moments of illumination.
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Product code: Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky buy - Franklin Library Collection - 1979