This article is about the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. For other uses, see Crime and Punishment (disambiguation).
Crime and Punishment
1956 Random House printing of Crime and Punishment, translated by Constance Garnett
Author
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Original title
Преступление и наказание
Language
Russian
Genre
Literary fiction
Publisher
The Russian Messenger (series)
Publication date
1866; separate edition 1867
Pages
527
OCLC
26399697
Dewey Decimal
891.73/3 20
LC Class
PG3326 .P7 1993
Original text
Преступление и наказание at Russian Wikisource
Translation
Crime and Punishment at Wikisource
Crime and Punishment (pre-reform Russian: Преступленіе и наказаніе; post-reform Russian: Преступление и наказание, tr. Prestupleniye i nakazaniye, IPA:[prʲɪstʊˈplʲenʲɪjeɪnəkɐˈzanʲɪje]) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866.[1] It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels following his return from ten years of exile in Siberia. Crime and Punishment is considered the first great novel of his mature period of writing[2] and is often cited as one of the greatest works of world literature.[3][4][5][6]
Crime and Punishment follows the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in Saint Petersburg who plans to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker, an old woman who stores money and valuable objects in her flat. He theorises that with the money he could liberate himself from poverty and go on to perform great deeds, and seeks to convince himself that certain crimes are justifiable if they are committed in order to remove obstacles to the higher goals of 'extraordinary' men. Once the deed is done, however, he finds himself wracked with confusion, paranoia, and disgust. His theoretical justifications lose all their power as he struggles with guilt and horror and is confronted with both internal and external consequences of his deed.
^University of Minnesota – Study notes for Crime and Punishment – (retrieved on 1 May 2006)
^Frank (1995), p. 96.
^"The 50 Most Influential Books of All Time". Open Education Database. 26 January 2010.
^"The Greatest Books". thegreatestbooks.org.
^Writers, Telegraph (23 July 2021). "The 100 greatest novels of all time". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022.
^"100 must-read classic books, as chosen by our readers". Penguin. 26 May 2022.
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