Publisher's Synopsis
Crime and Punishment is a novel by Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky published in 1866.This work is one of the best known by the Russian novelist and expresses Dostoyevsky's religious and existentialist views, emphasizing the theme of salvation through suffering. The novel depicts the murder of an elderly pawnshop and her younger sister by Raskolnikov, a former student from St. Petersburg, and its emotional, mental and physical consequences on the murderer.
