# Crime and Punishment

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- Book: [Crime and Punishment](https://www.bookquiver.com/fyodor-m-dostoevsky/crime-and-punishment) ([Crime and Punishment.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/fyodor-m-dostoevsky/crime-and-punishment.md))
- Authors: [Fyodor M. Dostoevsky](https://www.bookquiver.com/fyodor-m-dostoevsky), [Constance Garnett](https://www.bookquiver.com/constance-garnett)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4044-913-6
- Pages: 720
- Published: 2003-01-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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 of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption.