Crime and Punishment

Name: Crime and Punishment
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leonard Stanton

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leonard Stanton · 1866 · book9.3773 ratings

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with Porfiry, a suspicious detective, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a…