num_pages: 629
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 (Modern Library)
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: 853442
places: Russia, St. Petersburg, Siberia, Russian Empire
publisher: Modern Library