Crime and Punishment

Raskolnikov, an impoverished student, determines to kill a pawnbroker whom he detests. He does, and much plot ensues. The first book that Dostoevsky wrote after his exile in Siberia, and widely considered one of the greatest novels of all time, in all of world literature.

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was a novelist, short story writer, and journalist. Widely regarded as one of the greatest novelists ever, his most acclaimed novels--Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Idiot--have had an immeasurable impact on world literature, Existentialism, and Freudian psychology.