SUMMARY: Crime and Punishment is one of the most important novels of the nineteenth century. It is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes to set himself outside and above society. The novel is marked by Dostoevsky's own harrowing experience in penal servitude, and yet
Crime and Punishment
โ Scribed by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 431 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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