First published in 1866, Crime and Punishment is Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s searing psychological portrait of Raskolnikov, a young student in St. Petersburg who commits murder and then grapples with the crushing weight of his own conscience. The novel is a landmark of world literature, probing the deepest questions of morality, suffering, and redemption.
Dostoyevsky’s relentless psychological intensity and compassionate insight into human weakness have made this one of the most studied and admired novels ever written. Download this free English-translation EPUB from Better Gutenberg and experience one of literature’s great moral dramas.