Crime and Punishment
- ISBN-10
- 161534005X
- ISBN-13
- 9781615340057
- Series
- Crime and Punishment
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 540
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-02
- Author
- Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Description
Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished St. Petersburg ex-student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated, unscrupulous pawnbroker seemingly for her money, thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time, he argues, ridding the world of an evil worthless parasite. Raskolnikov also strives to be an extraordinary being, similar to Napoleon, believing that murder is permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose.
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