Crime and PunishmentOne of Time’s 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time • 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. 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. Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in a garret in the gloomy slums of St. Petersburg, carries out his grotesque scheme and plunges into a hell of persecution, madness and terror. 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 . . . a man who cannot escape his own conscience. |
Contents
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Section 2 | 42 |
Section 3 | 55 |
Section 4 | 78 |
Section 5 | 91 |
Section 6 | 109 |
Section 7 | 120 |
Section 8 | 134 |
Section 18 | 313 |
Section 19 | 357 |
Section 20 | 386 |
Section 21 | 401 |
Section 22 | 418 |
Section 23 | 433 |
Section 24 | 443 |
Section 25 | 457 |
Section 9 | 156 |
Section 10 | 197 |
Section 11 | 223 |
Section 12 | 237 |
Section 13 | 249 |
Section 14 | 268 |
Section 15 | 279 |
Section 16 | 305 |
Section 17 | 307 |
Section 26 | 467 |
Section 27 | 478 |
Section 28 | 493 |
Section 29 | 516 |
Section 30 | 527 |
Section 31 | 535 |
Section 32 | 543 |
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