Rank 45 of 100
Crime and Punishment
Also known as Prestuplenie i nakazanie
Synopsis
Raskolnikov, a broke former student in St. Petersburg, convinces himself that an extraordinary man may kill a parasitic pawnbroker. Dostoevsky spends the rest of the book inside the fever that follows, as theory fails and a reluctant detective and a young woman who has survived worse than theory both wait him out.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1866
- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Russia
- Form
- Novel
- Genre
- Literary, Psychological
- Audience
- Adult
- Era
- 19th century
- Movement
- Realist
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 545 pages
- Reported copies
- Tens of millions of copies
- Kind
- Fiction