Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky with Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator), Richard Pevear (Translator)

564 pages first pub 1866 (editions)

fiction classics crime literary dark reflective tense slow-paced
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Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventi...

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