num_pages: 559
description: 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.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.
language: English
title: Crime and Punishment
titlecomplete: Crime and Punishment
characters: Zossimov, Nikolai Dementiev (“Mikolka”), Lizaveta Ivanovna, Nastasya Petrovna (“Nastenka,” “Nastasyushka”), Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov, Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, Sofia Semyonovna Marmeladova, Pulcheria Alexandrovna Raskolnikov, Alyona Ivanovna, Dmitri Prokofich Razumikhin, Polina Mikhailovna Marmeladov (“Polya,” “Polenka,” “Polechka”), Ilya Petrovich (“Gunpowder”), Porfiry Petrovich, Avdotya Romanovna Raskolnikova, Andrei Semyonovich Lebezyatnikov, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, Alexander Grigorievich Zamyotov, Semyon Zakharovich Marmeladov, Katerina Ivanovna Marmeladova
genres: Literature, Crime, Classics, School, Novels, Philosophy, Russian Literature, 19th Century, Russia, Fiction
ratings_count: 853723
places: Russian Empire, Siberia, St. Petersburg, Russia
publisher: Penguin Classics