Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Penguin Clothbound Classics) young adults Originally published in Switzerland in

Originally published in Switzerland in 1985

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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Penguin Clothbound Classics) young adults Originally published in Switzerland inFyodor Dostoyevsky's seminal classic, now in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford Smith. Nominated as one of America's best loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read 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.