Nominated as one of America\'s best-loved novels by PBS\'s The Great American Read A desperate young man plans the perfect crime--the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. a man who cannot escape his own conscience.. . .
Crime and Punishment takes the reader on a journey into the darkest recesses of the criminal and depraved mind, and exposes the soul of a man possessed by both good and evil .
Petersburg, carries out his grotesque scheme and plunges into a hell of persecution, madness and terror.
Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in a garret in the gloomy slums of St.
Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law--if it will ultimately benefit humanity? So begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, a fascinating detective thriller infused with philosophical, religious and social commentary.
Nominated as one of America\'s best-loved novels by PBS\'s The Great American Read A desperate young man plans the perfect crime--the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn
