num_pages: 494
description: This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition™ includes a glossary and reader’s notes to help the modern reader understand the turbulent and dynamic world of Dostoevsky’s St. Petersburg. When Raskolnikov, a young student, is driven to murder by desperate poverty and a belief in his own superiority, he is plunged into a dark hell of guilt and delirium. Set in the gloomy slums of St. Petersburg in the 1860s, this stark and gripping psychological tale describes a man’s search for redemption in the face of suffering and a society’s search for meaning in the chaos of a changing world. Shortly after returning from a decade-long exile in Siberia, Dostoevsky fled creditors only to end up living in destitution in Austria. Staying in a hotel he couldn’t afford, with barely enough money for tea, he composed this masterfully modern examination of a murderer's mind.
language: English
title: Crime and Punishment
titlecomplete: Crime and Punishment (Literary Touchstone Edition)
characters: Nikolai Dementiev (“Mikolka”), Avdotya Romanovna Raskolnikova, Porfiry Petrovich, Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, Alyona Ivanovna, Polina Mikhailovna Marmeladov (“Polya,” “Polenka,” “Polechka”), Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov, Alexander Grigorievich Zamyotov, Sofia Semyonovna Marmeladova, Pulcheria Alexandrovna Raskolnikov, Katerina Ivanovna Marmeladova, Ilya Petrovich (“Gunpowder”), Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, Zossimov, Andrei Semyonovich Lebezyatnikov, Dmitri Prokofich Razumikhin, Lizaveta Ivanovna, Nastasya Petrovna (“Nastenka,” “Nastasyushka”), Semyon Zakharovich Marmeladov
genres: Russia, Philosophy, Novels, School, Crime, Literature, Russian Literature, Classics, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 853392
places: Siberia, Russia, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
publisher: Prestwick House, Inc.