num_pages: 544
description: Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, is determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammeled individual will. When he commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that, for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth of characterization and vision is almost unequaled in the literatures of the world. The best known of Dostoevsky’s masterpieces, Crime and Punishment can bear any amount of rereading without losing a drop of its power over our imaginations.Dostoevsky’s drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman’s murder into the nineteenth century’s profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel.
language: English
title: Crime and Punishment
titlecomplete: Crime and Punishment
characters: Avdotya Romanovna Raskolnikova, Nikolai Dementiev (“Mikolka”), Pulcheria Alexandrovna Raskolnikov, Polina Mikhailovna Marmeladov (“Polya,” “Polenka,” “Polechka”), Sofia Semyonovna Marmeladova, Alexander Grigorievich Zamyotov, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, Lizaveta Ivanovna, Porfiry Petrovich, Semyon Zakharovich Marmeladov, Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, Andrei Semyonovich Lebezyatnikov, Alyona Ivanovna, Nastasya Petrovna (“Nastenka,” “Nastasyushka”), Dmitri Prokofich Razumikhin, Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov, Katerina Ivanovna Marmeladova, Zossimov, Ilya Petrovich (“Gunpowder”)
genres: Fiction, Philosophy, School, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Russian Literature, Crime, Russia
ratings_count: 854024
places: Russian Empire, Siberia, St. Petersburg, Russia
publisher: Signet Classic