num_pages: 542
description: A desperate young man plans the perfect crime -- the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old woman no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law -- if it will ultimately benefit humanity? So begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, a fascinating detective thriller infused with philosophical, religious and social commentary. Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in a garret in the gloomy slums of St. Petersburg, carries out his grotesque scheme and plunges into a hell of persecution, madness and terror. Crime And Punishment takes the reader on a journey into the darkest recesses of the criminal and depraved mind, and exposes the soul of a man possessed by both good and evil ... a man who cannot escape his own conscience.
language: English
title: Crime and Punishment
titlecomplete: Crime and Punishment
characters: Alyona Ivanovna, Alexander Grigorievich Zamyotov, Nikolai Dementiev (“Mikolka”), Andrei Semyonovich Lebezyatnikov, Lizaveta Ivanovna, Nastasya Petrovna (“Nastenka,” “Nastasyushka”), Avdotya Romanovna Raskolnikova, Sofia Semyonovna Marmeladova, Pulcheria Alexandrovna Raskolnikov, Semyon Zakharovich Marmeladov, Porfiry Petrovich, Dmitri Prokofich Razumikhin, Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov, Polina Mikhailovna Marmeladov (“Polya,” “Polenka,” “Polechka”), Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, Katerina Ivanovna Marmeladova, Ilya Petrovich (“Gunpowder”), Zossimov, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov
genres: Classics, Philosophy, Russia, Novels, Russian Literature, School, Literature, 19th Century, Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 853401
places: Siberia, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire, Russia
publisher: Bantam Dell