Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, published by Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated in 2006, is a reissue of one of the world’s greatest novels, encompassing 536 pages in English. This work presents a profound narrative centered around a murder and its far-reaching consequences, set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Russia’s tumultuous transition to modernity.
Readers will encounter the story of Raskolnikov, a young, intellectual student living in the impoverished slums of czarist St. Petersburg. Driven by his dire circumstances, he grapples with the belief that he is above moral law, leading him to commit murder. The novel explores themes of crime and punishment, illustrating how they are intrinsically linked and the resulting suffering that ensues. As a classic work of fiction, it delves into the complexities of human thought and morality, inviting reflection on the nature of justice and the human condition.
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One of the world’s greatest novels, Crime and Punishment is the story of a murder and its consequences—an unparalleled tale of suspense set in the midst of nineteenth-century Russia’s troubled transition to the modern age.
In the slums of czarist St. Petersburg lives young Raskolnikov, a sensitive, intellectual student. The poverty he has always known drives him to believe that he is exempt from moral law. But when he puts this belief to the test and commits murder, there results unbearable suffering. Crime and punishment, the novel reminds us, “grow from the same seed.”
“No other novelist,” wrote Irving Howe of Dostoyevsky, “has dramatized so powerfully the values and dangers, the uses and corruptions of systematized thought.” But Sigmund Freud and others saw the Russian’s work in a different light. Said Freud, “He might have been a liberator of mankind. Instead he chose to be its jailer.”
“He is the only psychologist I have anything to learn from.”—Friedrich Nietzsche
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