Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment was first published in twelve monthly installments during 1866 by Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The book was written on the return from ten years of exile in Siberia and is considered first great novel from the period of writing.

The book follows Raskolnikov through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder of a a pawnbroker women that no only loves, nor will mourn. The desperate former student murders without remorse or regret and imagines himself to be a great man.

Crime and Punishment is commonly seen as one of the greatest novels ever written and is a powerful psychological thriller with added philosophical conversation, and religious and social commentary.