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Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881

BookID: 2554

Language:English

Translator:Garnett, Constance, 1861-1946

Uniform Title:Prestuplenie i nakazanie. English

Reading Level:Reading ease score: 83.0 (6th grade). Easy to read.

Copyright Status:Public domain in the USA.

Detective and mystery storiesPsychological fictionSaint Petersburg (Russia) -- FictionMurder -- Fiction

Description

"Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a novel published in 1866. It follows Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished former law student in Saint Petersburg who plans to murder an unscrupulous pawnbroker. He convinces himself that certain crimes are justifiable if committed by "extraordinary" men pursuing higher goals. Once the deed is done, however, he is consumed by confusion, paranoia, and guilt as his theoretical justifications crumble and he faces the internal and external consequences of his actions. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Class:PG: Language and Literatures: Slavic (including Russian), Languages and Literature

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