Crime and Punishment
A tormented student's descent into murder, conscience, and the painful road to redemption.
About this book
Set in the grim streets of 19th-century St. Petersburg, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is a searing psychological novel that plunges into the mind of a young intellectual wrestling with poverty, ideology, and an increasingly unstable conscience. As tensions mount between theory and feeling, the book becomes a tense moral thriller—rich in moral dilemma, feverish introspection, vivid secondary characters, and the claustrophobic atmosphere of a city that mirrors the protagonist's inner turmoil. With philosophical depth and relentless emotional pressure, Dostoevsky examines guilt, justice, and the possibility of redemption, inviting readers to confront uncomfortable questions about what we believe ourselves capable of.