num_pages: 544
description: Crime and Punishment is the story of a murder and its consequences--a tale of suspense without equal. Set in Russia in the midst of its troubled transition to the modern age, the novel's driven young hero, Raskolnikov is a sensitive intellectual driven by poverty to believe he was exempt from moral law. The unforgettable gallery of characters--ranging from police inspector to prostitute, from incorrigible sinner to unbearable prig--inhabit the charged atmosphere of a large Russian city in the nineteenth century. Here, in a brilliant translation by the noted scholar and literary critic Sidney Monas, is on of the world's greatest novels. Crime and Punishment is the supreme expression of an author who "explored pathological states and the psychology of high tension, the realm of 'obsession' and 'possession,' because it was there one could most clearly and dramatically see the human consequences of an idea carried ruthlessly through to its logical conclusion...For Dostoyevsky, an idea always has skin around it, and a human personality."
  Translated and with an afterword by Sidney Monas

language: English
title: Crime and Punishment
titlecomplete: Crime and Punishment
characters: Polina Mikhailovna Marmeladov (“Polya,” “Polenka,” “Polechka”), Andrei Semyonovich Lebezyatnikov, Pulcheria Alexandrovna Raskolnikov, Alexander Grigorievich Zamyotov, Nastasya Petrovna (“Nastenka,” “Nastasyushka”), Avdotya Romanovna Raskolnikova, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, Nikolai Dementiev (“Mikolka”), Alyona Ivanovna, Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov, Ilya Petrovich (“Gunpowder”), Sofia Semyonovna Marmeladova, Semyon Zakharovich Marmeladov, Porfiry Petrovich, Katerina Ivanovna Marmeladova, Lizaveta Ivanovna, Dmitri Prokofich Razumikhin, Zossimov
genres: Fiction, Russian Literature, 19th Century, Classics, School, Philosophy, Crime, Russia, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 853737
places: Russia, St. Petersburg, Siberia, Russian Empire
publisher: Signet Classics