# 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: 978-02-4134-768-3
- Pages: 720
- Published: 2018-07-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 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 Porfiry, a suspicious detective, 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. As the ensuing investigation and trial reveal the true identity of the murderer, Dostoyevsky's dark masterpiece evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur and everyone's faith in humanity is tested.