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Crime and Punishment

โœ Scribed by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Year
2017
Tongue
en-US
Weight
375 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1504044479

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โœฆ Synopsis

The acclaimed Russian novelist's epic morality tale of a young man's horrifying crime and his struggle for redemption.
Rodion Raskolnikov, a young man living in St. Petersburg, devises a gruesome experiment in morality. Theorizing that men of exceptional intelligence have license to kill others, he decides to test his theory with the murder of an elderly pawnbroker. Though no evidence can link him to his crime, it leaves him so deeply disturbed that he fights a constant urge to confess. Despite this, Raskolnikov goes on with his life, contending with his younger sister's plan to marry a man of dubious character and the fate of an impoverished family for whom he feels responsible.

In Fyodor Dostoyevsky's acutely observed psychological drama, readers meet an array of brilliantly realized characters. There is Arkady Svidrigailov, the wealthy, married man infatuated with Raskolnikov's sister; Sonya Marmeladov, the innocent young woman forced by poverty...

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Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game