Crime and Punishment

Dostoevsky’s classic novel, Crime and Punishment, tells of Rodion Ramonovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash. Dostoevsky breaks into the realm of the psychological through this story of a killer who wishes to set himself above and outside of society. A true classic and an important work from the great Russian novelist.