Crime and Punishment is not only considered to be one of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s most important novels. It is considered by many to be one of the most important novels of all time.
Written shortly after Dostoevsky returned from a decade-long prison sentence in Siberia, Crime and Punishment follows the brilliant but troubled student Raskolnikov, who kills an unlovable pawnbroker and her innocent sister to prove a theory about the greater moral good. As guilt and sickness overtake Raskolnikov, he wrestles with the affairs of his destitute sister Dounia and the sex worker Sonia, the kind and faithful daughter of a ruinous alcoholic.
Like Notes From Underground before it and The Brothers...
