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By Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett (Translator)

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Don’t let the page count scare you. The riveting suspense and impossibly layered characters will keep you turning page after joyously endless page as you bandy with countless questions of philosophy. And it all starts with a single act of questionable morality. Can it be redeemed, or is guilt permanent?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment is a towering masterpiece of world literature, plunging into the depths of the human psyche and the tumultuous social landscape of 19th-century St. Petersburg. The novel follows Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished and intellectually arrogant former student who, driven by a radical theory of "extraordinary men" being above moral law, murders an elderly pawnbroker and her sister.

Instead of liberation, the act unleashes a maelstrom of guilt, paranoia, ...