num_pages: 430
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: 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: 853697
places: Siberia, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire, Russia
publisher: Dover Publications