- Living in squalor, a former student and loner (Raskolnikov) murders an old pawnbroker woman in order to confirm his hypothesis that certain individuals can pretermit morality in the pursuit of something greater.
- Crime and Punishment is one of the most highly regarded works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a Russian novelist born in 1821. He was no stranger to the law, having spent four years in a labour camp after being involved in a radical socialist group.
The book is considered to be the world's first psychological thriller. It's a gripping detective story, a fantastic piece of storytelling with a fascinatingly complex central character.
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